The license of Matlab 2019b on gpu7 has expired

[Predrag Punosevac]

Just clear the /tmp folder from MATLAB cludge. You have access to
them. IIRC you also have sysadmin privileges on that machine. There
are few rough files left after the licensing manager crashed.

Predrag

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 3:57 PM Donghan Wang <donghanw at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> Predrag,
>
> Thanks for the information. I restarted the Matlab license manager on GPU7. It works now.
>
> The lmstart command writes to /var/tmp/lm_TMW.log. It would fail due to the ownership issue (shown below). So it seems only the auton-local account can restart it on computing nodes.
>
> [dwang at gpu7 etc]$ ./lmstart
>     Error: Cannot write in logfile ($LM_LOGFILE).
>            LM_LOGFILE = /var/tmp/lm_TMW.log
>                         -rw-rw-r--. 1 auton-local auton-local
>            You are:     uid=2043(dwang) gid=2043(dwang)
>
> Thanks,
> Jarod
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 2:50 PM Predrag Punosevac <predragp at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jarod,
>>
>> I am CC-ing users as this might be of concern to the wider community.
>>
>> No, the MATLAB license 2019b has not expired. The license manager
>> might have died. It has to be restarted as a regular (non root) user.
>> Typically
>> I log as a root and then do
>>
>> su - auton-local
>> cd /home/MATLAB/R2019/etc/
>> ./lmstart
>>
>> If you have an older pre 2019b license those have expired.
>>
>> I typically upgrade MATLAB in the lab only once a year due to the fact
>> that CMU licenses run from 1st of October until the 1st of October
>> next year.  I do have access to R2020b pre-release. I am not doing
>> testing for Mathworks unless they add 100k to my current annual
>> salary. The license for R2020b pre-release will expire in three
>> months.  I could install R2020a but that is a lot of work if it is not
>> really needed for something which can be used only until the end of
>> September.
>>
>>
>>
>> Predrag
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 2:32 PM Donghan Wang <donghanw at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > Predrag,
>> >
>> > May you update it or install the latest Matlab available?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Jarod