I'm having the same experience.  I used to be able to run Matlab fine with
1.6*, but since our sysadmin has installed 2.0 Beta, I can't run it
anymore.  It displays the Splash screen and then seg faults.

Yasir

On Fri, 14 May 2004, Mark Davies wrote:

> Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 10:35:37 +1200
> From: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
> To: port-i386@NetBSD.org, current-users@NetBSD.org
> Subject: matlab stopped working between 1.6ZH and 2.0C
>
> We have been successfully using matlab under linux emulation with various
> instances of -current, most recently 1.6ZH, including using the java based
> gui front end.
>
> The following script is our "matlab" command:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> ulimit -s 32768
> ulimit -d 1048576
> MATLAB_JAVA=/usr/pkg/java/sun-1.3.1 export MATLAB_JAVA
> exec /vol/matlab/bin/matlab $*
>
>
> However on upgrading to 2.0C matlab now puts up the splash screen then
> immediately segfaults.  If we invoke matlab without the java (matlab -nojvm)
> it works (minimally tested) so it looks like its something to do with the
> java but other java-1.3.1 based things are working fine.
>
> Any suggestions on the problem/ what changed / how to track it down?
>
> cheers
> mark
>