Why does MATLAB 6.0 and 6.1 (R12 and 12.1) crash when using OpenGL on Solaris?

Why does MATLAB 6.0 and 6.1 (R12 and 12.1) crash when using OpenGL on Solaris?

The output of

opengl info

Looks like:

 Version        = 1.1 Sun OpenGL 1.1.2 for Solaris

 Vendor         = Sun Microsystems, Inc.

 Renderer       = Elite-3D, VIS

 MaxTextureSize = 2048

 Extensions     = GL_EXT_texture3D GL_SGI_color_table GL_SGI_texture_color_table GL_SUNX_geometry_compression GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_SUNX_surface_hint GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays GL_SUNX_constant_data GL_HP_occlusion_tes

 t GL_EXT_histogram GL_SGI_postconvolution_color_table GL_EXT_convolution GL_HP_convolution_border_modes GL_SUN_convolution_border_modes GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_pixel_transform

and results in the following error::

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        Segmentation violation detected at Wed Feb  7 12:58:31 2001

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 Configuration:

   MATLAB Version:   6.0.0.88 (R12)

   Operating System: SunOS 5.7 Generic_106541-14 sun4u

   Window System:    Sun Microsystems, Inc. (3610), display :0.0

   Current Visual:   0x2e (class 3, depth  8)

   Virtual Machine:  Java 1.1.8 from Sun Microsystems Inc.

 Register State:

   g0 = 00000000   o0 = 0000002e   l0 = 002b6910   i0 = 002a8a28

   g1 = 00000001   o1 = ffffffff   l1 = 00000000   i1 = 00000001

   g2 = 00000010   o2 = 00000000   l2 = 00000001   i2 = 00000000

   g3 = 00000040   o3 = 0000002c   l3 = 000005f8   i3 = f8d67400

   g4 = 0041b2d0   o4 = f8d5b26c   l4 = 00000000   i4 = f8d5b26c

   g5 = fffffffe   o5 = 00000000   l5 = 00000000   i5 = 00fc7e18

   g6 = 00000000   sp = ffbe90f8   l6 = 00000000   fp = ffbe9158

   g7 = 000c8078   o7 = f8d3d9ec   l7 = 00000000   i7 = fd253d88

   pc = f8d3da8c  psr = fe901003

 Stack Trace:

   [0] libGL.so:g

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Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This bug has been fixed for Release 14 SP1 (R14SP1). For previous releases, please read below for any possible workarounds:

This has been reported to our development staff to be fixed in a future release of MATLAB. To work around this issue, please refer to the solution attached below.