Carlo Nicolini

Matlab R2016a crashes on Ubuntu 16.04 with NVidia 361 drivers

Aug 17, 2016

For those of you who upgraded Ubuntu from 14.04 to 16.04 and have found that Matlab is crashing with errors in nvidia drivers, you have three options:

  1. If you have Matlab R2015 use that.
  2. Downgrade your NVidia drivers.
  3. Run Matlab R2016a with -softwareopengl flag:

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/926199/linux/361-28-crashes-matlab-r2016a/

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