CentOS - Aug 2007 - Matlab 2007a and C5 out-of-box broken

I had to reinstall C5 64-bit out-of-box on two machines.  Before the 
reinstall, Matlab 2007a 64-bit worked fine.  Now, I get "failed to start 
the desktop; failure loading desktop class".  matlab -nojvm works fine.

The reinstall was not an upgrade.

I tested on two identical systems - one before I installed the NVIDIA 
drivers, and one after.  No difference.

I installed jre and jdk 1_5.0.11 on one system, and redirected 
/usr/bin/java to the newer one.  No luck.

I tried installing Matlab as root and sudo, running it as root and plain 
user.   No difference.

Web sites aren't helping me much.

I performed a complete install (selecting ALL items from EVERY catagory of 
the C5 64-bit DVD).

The machines are not on any network and never will be (both isolated 
systems)

Anyone else with ideas?

Thanks.

Scott

On 8/13/07, Scott Ehrlich <scott at mit.edu>
wrote:
> I had to reinstall C5 64-bit out-of-box on two machines.  Before the
> reinstall, Matlab 2007a 64-bit worked fine.  Now, I get "failed to
start
> the desktop; failure loading desktop class".  matlab -nojvm works
fine.
>
> The reinstall was not an upgrade.
>
> I tested on two identical systems - one before I installed the NVIDIA
> drivers, and one after.  No difference.
>
> I installed jre and jdk 1_5.0.11 on one system, and redirected
> /usr/bin/java to the newer one.  No luck.
>
> I tried installing Matlab as root and sudo, running it as root and plain
> user.   No difference.
>
> Web sites aren't helping me much.
>
> I performed a complete install (selecting ALL items from EVERY catagory of
> the C5 64-bit DVD).
>
> The machines are not on any network and never will be (both isolated
> systems)
>
> Anyone else with ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
Have you checked this page?

http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/data/1-183DH.html?solution=1-183DH

Would matlab start with -nodesktop option at all ?

Akemi