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. >