Re: Matlab dumps core (Solaris 10)

From: Coy Hile (hile_at_cse.psu.edu)
Date: 10/06/05


Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:34:06 -0400

Peter Eriksson wrote:
> <rant>
> Now this is ridiculus...
>
> First there is a security hole in ld.so (the LD_AUDIT) problem
> so Sun releases a patch for it on Solaris 9 that solves the
> security hole. Only problem is that the fix causes Matlab to
> crash and dump core. After a (long) while another version of that
> patch is released that solves this problem with Matlab.
>
> Sun also released a patch for Solaris 10 that solved the same
> LD_AUDIT problem (and a bunch of other problems). And And guess what?
> Matlab dumps core! Two days ago Sun released a new version of that
> patch, but did it solve the Matlab problems? Nope.
>
> *Sigh*
> </rant>
>
> - Peter

There's a Tpatch out for this now. Unfortunately, I don't know the ID.
  I believe under Solaris 9 the bug was 6301218. One of my coworkers
just installed the Tpatch for this issue and it works fine.



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