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