MATLAB R2025a: Some base dependencies are not installed by setup-matlab, leading to crashes during run-command #154
Description
Hello @mcafaro and all,
Thank you very much again for making MATLAB available under GitHub Actions!
I am reporting an issue with the newly available MATLAB R2025a.
According to the README at https://github.com/matlab-actions/setup-matlab/blob/main/README.md,
Note: For GitHub-hosted runners, the Setup MATLAB action automatically includes the dependencies required to run MATLAB and other MathWorks products. However, if you are using a self-hosted runner, you must ensure that the required dependencies are available on your runner. For details, see Required Software on Self-Hosted Runners.
As far as I understand, this means that all the base dependencies listed at https://github.com/mathworks-ref-arch/container-images/tree/main/matlab-deps are automatically installed on GitHub-hosted runners by matlab-actions / setup-matlab, aren't they?
However, this seems not always the case, which may lead to crashes (internal errors) during run-command. Here is an example.
In the following workflow, we remove some libraries from a GitHub-hosted Linux runner before running setup-matlab, and see whether MATLAB works properly after setup-matlab:
https://github.com/zequipe/test_matlab/blob/master/.github/workflows/dependencies.yml
It turns out that, when x11-xkb-utils is removed from Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04 before setup-matlab, MATLAB R2025a will encounter a crash when calling plot, even though x11-xkb-utils is a base dependency of MATLAB R2025a according to the following:
See x11-xkb-utils.log for the full log of the workflow. In particular, the MATLAB crash log is attached to the end of this post.
N.B.:
- This is only an example, which does not mean to be exhaustive. Similar issues may exist for other base dependencies. I hope it is easy for you to check whether
setup-matlabinstalls all the dependencies correctly. - Strangely, the particular issue illustrated by this example does not exist on MATLAB R2024a/b, even though MATLAB 2024a also depends on
x11-xkb-utils. - Another example: if
libgl1is removed from Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04 beforesetup-matlab, MATLAB R2025a will be stuck when callingsaveas, even thoughlibgl1is a base dependency of MATLAB R2025a. - In case this example seems silly, I mention that some popular actions may accidentally remove base dependencies of MATLAB. See https://github.com/marketplace/actions/free-disk-space-ubuntu for an example.
Thank you for taking a look.
Crash log of MATLAB R2025a:
MATLAB: <unknown>:0: <unknown>: Assertion `This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Available platform plugins are: linuxfb, minimal, offscreen, vnc, xcb. ' failed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertion detected at 2025-07-28 09:15:57 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Configuration: Crash Decoding : Disabled - No sandbox or build area path Crash Mode : continue (default) Default Encoding : UTF-8 Deployed : false GNU C Library : 2.39 stable Graphics Driver : Uninitialized software Graphics card 1 : 0x1414 ( 0x1414 ) 0x5353 Version 0.0.0.0 (0-0-0) MATLAB Architecture : glnxa64 MATLAB Entitlement ID : 11373431 MATLAB Root : /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64 MATLAB Version : 25.1.0.2973910 (R2025a) Update 1 OpenGL : software Operating System : Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Process ID : 10114 Processor ID : x86 Family 25 Model 1 Stepping 1, AuthenticAMD Session Key : ebexqphpb432zqv9f6mydjrjr Window System : No active display Fault Count: 1 Assertion: This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Available platform plugins are: linuxfb, minimal, offscreen, vnc, xcb. Current Thread: 'MCR 0 interpret' id 140165162985152 Register State (captured): RAX = 0000000000000000 RBX = 00007f7ba8d24428 RCX = 0000000000000000 RDX = 00007f7ba8d0dd18 RSP = 00007f7abebfc640 RBP = 00007f7abebfca20 RSI = 00007f7ba8cf2ab5 RDI = 00007f7abebfc650 R8 = 0000000000000001 R9 = 00007f7abebfc930 R10 = 0000000000000000 R11 = 0000000000000000 R12 = 00007f7ba8cf2ab5 R13 = 00007f7abebfca90 R14 = 00007f7abebfcef0 R15 = 00007f7ab000dfe8 RIP = 00007f7ba8c960ff EFL = 0000000000000000 CS = 0000 FS = 0000 GS = 0000 Stack Trace (captured): [ 0] 0x00007f7ba8c8fb93 /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/libmwfl.so+00326547 [ 1] 0x00007f7ba8c8fddc /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/libmwfl.so+00327132 _ZN10foundation4core4diag15stacktrace_base7captureEm+00000028 [ 2] 0x00007f7ba8c91c9a /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/libmwfl.so+00335002 [ 3] 0x00007f7ba8c928b2 /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/libmwfl.so+00338098 [ 4] 0x00007f7ba8c92937 /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/libmwfl.so+00338231 [ 5] 0x00007f7afd6fab5a /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/matlab_startup_plugins/foundation/platform/pf_matlab_integ/../../../../../../bin/glnxa64/libmwpf_internal.so+00355162 [ 6] 0x00007f7b7a6a93f1 /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/matlab_startup_plugins/cefclient/../../../../bin/glnxa64/libQt5Core.so.5+00693233 [ 7] 0x00007f7b7a6a9496 /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/matlab_startup_plugins/cefclient/../../../../bin/glnxa64/libQt5Core.so.5+00693398 [ 8] 0x00007f7b7a69c5cd /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/matlab_startup_plugins/cefclient/../../../../bin/glnxa64/libQt5Core.so.5+00640461 _ZNK14QMessageLogger5fatalEPKcz+00000153 [ 9] 0x00007f7b7a111114 /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/matlab_startup_plugins/cefclient/../../../../bin/glnxa64/libQt5Gui.so.5+01118484 _ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate25createPlatformIntegrationEv+00003008 [ 10] 0x00007f7b7a11154b /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/matlab_startup_plugins/cefclient/../../../../bin/glnxa64/libQt5Gui.so.5+01119563 _ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate21createEventDispatcherEv+00000019 [ 11] 0x00007f7b7a7d34d0 /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/matlab_startup_plugins/cefclient/../../../../bin/glnxa64/libQt5Core.so.5+01914064 _ZN23QCoreApplicationPrivate4initEv+00000534 [ 12] 0x00007f7b7a11247c /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/matlab_startup_plugins/cefclient/../../../../bin/glnxa64/libQt5Gui.so.5+01123452 _ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate4initEv+00000032 [ 13] 0x00007f7b79b7612f /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/matlab_startup_plugins/cefclient/../../../../bin/glnxa64/libQt5Widgets.so.5+01532207 _ZN19QApplicationPrivate4initEv+00000009 [ 14] 0x00007f7afd7319de /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/matlab_startup_plugins/foundation/platform/pf_matlab_integ/../../../../../../bin/glnxa64/libmwpf_internal.so+00580062 _ZN16PFGuiApplicationC2ERiPPc+00000030 [ 15] 0x00007f7afd6f833b /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/matlab_startup_plugins/foundation/platform/pf_matlab_integ/../../../../../../bin/glnxa64/libmwpf_internal.so+00344891 _ZN9GuiThread3runEv+00001579 [ 16] 0x00007f7ba8adc8c3 /opt/hostedtoolcache/MATLAB/2025.1.999/x64/bin/glnxa64/../../sys/os/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6+00903363 [ 17] 0x00007f7ba869caa4 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+00641700 [ 18] 0x00007f7ba8729c3c /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+01219644 ** This crash report has been saved to disk as /home/runner/matlab_crash_dump.10114-1 ** MATLAB is exiting because of fatal error exit status 255