Apologies if this is not the right place to post this issue, but I couldn't
find a better place!

This problem was originally posted to the matlab.el project on
SourceForge.  In summary, the latest version of Matlab crashes when started
from "shell" or "term" within emacs (I haven't tried e-shell yet, but I can
check it tomorrow morning).  The program starts up without any issues
either from the X11 terminal or OSX's terminal.  In my case, it's always
using /bin/bash.

The problem appears to be some sort of Java or JRE issue, but I can't
imagine how running /bin/bash from within emacs would trigger such an error.

O/P details here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/matlab-emacs/mailman/message/35402696/

I can provide more details as requested.  I don't know if this problem
extends to GNU/Linus or MS operating systems.

thanks,

Peter Mao