On Linux, you may occasionally encounter the error “dlopen: cannot load any more object with static TLS” in MATLAB. This is a known bug since way back!
To fix, create a file “startup.m” in the directory that you start MATLAB from with the following content:
ones(10)*ones(10);
I know! It’s ugly… But it works!!
EDIT: Since it was not clear, the folder that you start MATLAB from is by default “~/Documents/MATLAB” under Linux. On Windows, that would be “Documents\MATLAB”.
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I did this and restarted MATLAB and the problem went away. I don’t know whether it was this fix or restarting MATLAB that did it, but thanks one way or another. By the way, I think this solution is very elegant, not ugly in the least.
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Restarting MATLAB sometimes solves the problem. I’ve never encountered the issue again after doing this fix. Glad it worked for you as well.
Yeah restarting the Matlab did the job :))
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Without the fix, it will come back at some point. Trust me, I’ve been there 😉
Using MATLAB2014a. This does not solve the problem. Neither does repeatedly restarting MATLAB. Any other ideas?
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I tried this on MATLAB 2014a as well. Can you verify that your “startup.m” file is actually working? To test, modify it so that it would store the matrix in a variable (eg. A = ones(10)*ones(10);) and then check to see if A is defined when MATLAB has started.
When I was facing this issue, I looked around a lot and couldn’t find any other fix that worked for an extended period of time other than this.
Thank you very much ! It does works！
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Glad to hear that!
Thank you! It works.
I don’t know why, but it works.