Pascal Hos wrote: > > I just received my matlab R12 student version and I'm having some > difficulties getting it to work correctly on potato. When I start it from an > xterm the splash screen shows up and it then the program hangs. The strange > part is that if I su as myself and then execute matlab, everything works just > fine!? The same problem occurs as root. What could be happening here?
I suspect that program tries to figure out who's ruinning it and does not succeed - perhaps it uses entry in utmp/wtmp and xterm does not log entry there but su does. also check the differences between environments (when you open xterm and then when you su) erik