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Error -9,57 in OS Ubuntu 20.04LTS

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Jair Criollo Rodríguez
Jair Criollo Rodríguez on 24 Feb 2021
Answered: Walter Roberson on 31 May 2022
Hi there, I'm a latin speaker so I'll try to describe my problem as well as posible.
I've been trying to install Matlab for a week, but every time I wante to run the aplication with te code
sudo ./matlab
MATLAB is selecting SOFTWARE OPENGL rendering.
License checkout failed.
License Manager Error -9
Your username does not match the username in the license file.
To run on this computer, you must run the Activation client to reactivate your license.
Troubleshoot this issue by visiting:
https://www.mathworks.com/support/lme/R2020b/9
Diagnostic Information:
Feature: MATLAB
License path: /root/.matlab/R2020b_licenses:/usr/local/MATLAB/R2020b/licenses/license.dat:/usr/local/MATLAB/R2020b
/licenses/license_jair-desktop_40513311_R2020b.lic
Licensing error: -9,57.
in the folder /usr/local/MATLAB/R2020b/bin.
I've try to revalid the licence (succesfuly) with this code in the same folder.
sudo ./activate_matlab.sh
But still not working, can anyone help me with this problem.

Answers (2)

Yukta Maurya
Yukta Maurya on 31 May 2022

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 31 May 2022
You cannot run MATLAB sudo unless you activated it against account "root". The effective uid is used in the authentication.

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