Exception in thread "Thread-5": java.lang.​NullPointe​rException after exiting [Matlab 2018b]

Dear Matlab experts

I've encountered the following error messages from terminal after exiting Matlab 2018b on Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS.

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• Exception in thread "Thread-5": java.lang.NullPointerException
• at com.teamdev.jxbrowser.chromium.internal.ipc.IPC.c(Unknown Source)
• at com.teamdev.jxbrowser.chromium.internal.ipc.IPC.b(Unknown Source)
• at com.teamdev.jxbrowser.chromium.internal.ipc.IPC.a(Unknown Source)
• at com.teamdev.jxbrowser.chromium.internal.ipc.b.run(Unknown Source)
• at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS"

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Thanks for considering my request.

[Giuseppe Gallo]

I've got the same problem on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Answer 1

[Jan Studnicka]

It looks like the known bug. You can find workaround here:

https://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/1765886

[Larry Lai]

Thanks so much!

[Sun Jack]

sudo apt-get install libgconf2-4