One of the many jobs that I have to do is to package a version of MATLAB for distribution to my employer’s standard student Windows desktop image and so I got to test MATLAB 2009a on Windows for the first time.\u00a0 While testing the deployed version of MATLAB I discovered that it seemed to hang when you tried to initialise the symbolic toolbox.<\/p>\n
For example, typing<\/p>\n
mupad<\/p>\n
into MATLAB should start the mupad notebook but it just sat there for over 10 minutes before I got bored and terminated the process.\u00a0 Similarly, if you type<\/p>\n
syms x<\/p>\n
to set the variable x as a symbolic variable then it just seems to hang.\u00a0 At first I thought there was something wrong with my deployment method but it turns out that it’s a bug in MATLAB 2009a.<\/p>\n
Happily, it’s a bug that Mathworks knows about<\/a> and they have provided a workaround.\u00a0 Unhappily, you need to regsiter for a Mathworks account to get access to the zip file containing the workaround<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the many jobs that I have to do is to package a version of MATLAB for distribution to my employer’s standard student Windows desktop image and so I got to test MATLAB 2009a on Windows for the first time.\u00a0 While testing the deployed version of MATLAB I discovered that it seemed to hang […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matlab"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-lD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}