Matlab 2008a

Unable to initialize com.mathworks.mwswing.MJStartup
Fatal Error on startup: Failure loading desktop class

Solution:

cd ~
cd .matlab
sudo chown usrname:usrname -R R2008a/

那是因为你用root装的，你home目录下的.matlab/R2008a/ owner是root。把他改成你自己就好了。我试过，没问题的