Well done, Morag and team! That is a great catch and very helpful to me and others!
Kind regards, Adam On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 2:43 PM Morag Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I had a quick look in the mail archive and didn't see anything on this, > but it's not impossible others will come across/have come across the same > issue I've encountered, so figured I'd potentially save some people future > frustrations and heart attacks. > > There's an issue with later versions of Matlab (R2021a and up) on older > versions of Ubuntu (18.04 and down) where opening Simulink intermittently > causes Matlab to crash with some variation of the following error: > > *Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../elf/dl-tls.c: 517: > _dl_allocate_tls_init: Assertion `listp != NULL' failed!* > > This is due to a bug in the glibc library present on older versions of > Linux distros that doesn't play nicely with the new way Matlab does some > things. Fortunately, Mathworks doth provide an answer. Not so fortunately, > their official answer is "upgrade to a newer operating system with a > version of glibc that doesn't have this bug". Lol. > > But they also kindly provide a solution > <https://github.com/mathworks/build-glibc-bz-19329-patch> for those of us > who can't just upgrade; an unofficial patch of the glibc libraries that > fixes this bug for various OS versions. This of course comes with the major > caveat that modifying system files is done at your own risk - all processes > in the OS share glibc, so the patch will affect your whole system, not just > Matlab, and this could cause weirdness. > > So if you find yourself in the same position I was yesterday, wondering if > you should risk it all just for Simulink - I'm happy to report that I > applied this patch, the universe did not end and nothing on my machine > *seems* to be broken. Great success. > > That is all, > Morag > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > [email protected]" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CAGH-0Tc-dJ0AUnC21S5oTP-pRXyhMC_Ld%2B8KyQ31NuSFZ7HfkQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CAGH-0Tc-dJ0AUnC21S5oTP-pRXyhMC_Ld%2B8KyQ31NuSFZ7HfkQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CADTJ%3DnGPD6cV7Vv0XuMVAezU%3D755iXVkMNzw%3DtGgc6Mc%3D_aTZQ%40mail.gmail.com.
