License Manager Error -9 Your username does not match the username in the license file.

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/R2019b/9

Diagnostic Information:

Feature: MATLAB

License path: /home/alex/.matlab/R2019b_licenses:/usr/local/MATLAB/R2019b/licenses/license.dat:/usr/local/MATLAB/R

2019b/licenses/license_thinkpad-p73_40871338_R2019b.lic

Licensing error: -9,57.

I am a student, I want to install the matlab under Ubuntu, but always get this problem??why is the matlab so unfrienddly to the users??

[Lonkong Clovis]

Diagnostic Information:

Feature: SR_MATLAB

License path: (Some Place)/.matlab/R2015b_licenses:/usr/local/MATLAB/R2015b/licenses/license.dat:/usr/local/MATLA

B/R2015b/licenses/(license_file_name).lic

Licensing error: -9,57.

Answer 1

[Hans Scharler]

The best way to resolve a License Manager Error -9 is by reactivating MATLAB with the activation client.

Linux

The activation client is located here:

/usr/local/MATLAB/R20XXx/bin/activate_matlab.sh

Once you have launched the MATLAB activation client:

1. Select "Activate automatically using the internet."
2. Log into your MathWorks account.
3. Select the correct license.
4. The username field should auto-populate with the correct user name. Leave it as is.
5. Confirm the activation information.
6. Click "finish" to complete the activation process.
7. Restart MATLAB.

Also, check out this Answer from MathWorks Support Team: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/99067-why-do-i-receive-license-manager-error-9

I hope this helps you out.

[Walter Roberson]

The username field needs to exactly match the result of whoami

[Bing Li]

thanks

[drummer]

great it worked!

Somebody should accept this answer!

[Raghavendra Kaushik]

thank u

it worked

[Lin Zhao]

For step 4, the username not auto-populate . when I tupe my username in my ubuntu, the problem still there.

[Walter Roberson]

The username you should use for ubuntu is the same as the response you get back for running

whoami

in a terminal session.

Unless, that is, you are running MATLAB using sudo in which case you would need to use root . Running MATLAB using sudo is not recommended.

[Shailesh Deshmukh]

how to know if i am running MATLAB in sudo?

[Walter Roberson]

@Shailesh Deshmukh

Most of the time in order to run MATLAB as sudo, you would have had to have typed in a sudo command at some point to invoke MATLAB.

If you are currently sudo and you are at the command terminal, then your prompt will be # instead of $