Slow symbolic toolbox startup in MATLAB 2009a
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. While testing the deployed version of MATLAB I discovered that it seemed to hang when you tried to initialise the symbolic toolbox.
For example, typing
mupad
into MATLAB should start the mupad notebook but it just sat there for over 10 minutes before I got bored and terminated the process. Similarly, if you type
syms x
to set the variable x as a symbolic variable then it just seems to hang. At first I thought there was something wrong with my deployment method but it turns out that it’s a bug in MATLAB 2009a.
Happily, it’s a bug that Mathworks knows about and they have provided a workaround. Unhappily, you need to regsiter for a Mathworks account to get access to the zip file containing the workaround.
I have the same problem
How did you get around it?
Hi danton
I used my Mathworks account to get the zip file mentioned in the last paragraph of the post. Worked perfectly
Cheers,
Mike
First of all.. matlab 2009 version how were u able to use syms…
symbolic toolbox is not present in version 2009..
I have tht problem..
I wanna use symbolic toolbox but hav only de 2009a version..
The symbolic toolbox *is* available for 2009a but you have to pay extra for it.