I just corresponded with Mathworks, and it turns out that RHEL very recently backported this libc fix into RHEL 8.
It's likely that Debian/Ubuntu will follow. On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 7:45 AM Adam Isaacson <aisaac...@sarao.ac.za> wrote: > 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 <mbr...@sarao.ac.za> 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 >> "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. >> 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 " > casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CADTJ%3DnGPD6cV7Vv0XuMVAezU%3D755iXVkMNzw%3DtGgc6Mc%3D_aTZQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Greg Lindahl Software Architect, Event Horizon Telescope Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 60 Garden Street | MS 66 | Cambridge, MA 02138 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CAJT0TuNT%3Da2EsjgLXBB%2BcVjOJ_eQkS0CQ_ovbxq7Oq9irih9XA%40mail.gmail.com.
