This is apparently due to MATLAB breaking after upgrading ncurses to v6.x. The problem has been diagnosed in some detail over in the Arch forums:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=202575
On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 8:08:43 PM UTC+3, Juan RP wrote:
Without more info it's hard to know what's going on.
You can run `gdb` and then dissassemble the faulty instruction.
Or run strace and see where it triggers the segmentation fault.