What does this mean when I run Matlab in Ubuntu 16.04?

Hello, when I run Matlab R2018a in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with GPU AMD Radeon 8400 HD, in the command window appear this message. How I can solve it?

com.jogamp.opengl.GLException: X11GLXDrawableFactory - Could not initialize shared resources for X11GraphicsDevice[type .x11, connection :1, unitID 0, handle 0x0, owner false, ResourceToolkitLock[obj 0x65cb3d53, isOwner false, <5d86b880, 14fc323e>[count 0, qsz 0, owner <NULL>]]]
  at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXDrawableFactory$SharedResourceImplementation.createSharedResource(X11GLXDrawableFactory.java:326)
  at jogamp.opengl.SharedResourceRunner.run(SharedResourceRunner.java:297)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
  at jogamp.opengl.GLContextImpl.makeCurrent(GLContextImpl.java:688)
  at jogamp.opengl.GLContextImpl.makeCurrent(GLContextImpl.java:580)
  at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXDrawableFactory$SharedResourceImplementation.createSharedResource(X11GLXDrawableFactory.java:297)
  ... 2 more
Exception in thread "Startup Class Loader" java.lang.InternalError: XXX0 profile[1]: GL3bc -> profileImpl GL4bc !!! not mapped 
  at com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile.computeProfileMap(GLProfile.java:2047)
  at com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile.initProfilesForDeviceCritical(GLProfile.java:1917)
  at com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile.initProfilesForDevice(GLProfile.java:1866)
  at com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile.initProfilesForDefaultDevices(GLProfile.java:1835)
  at com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile.access$000(GLProfile.java:79)
  at com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile$1.run(GLProfile.java:229)
  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
  at com.jogamp.opengl.GLProfile.initSingleton(GLProfile.java:215)
  at com.mathworks.hg.peer.JavaSceneServerPeer.initializeJOGL(JavaSceneServerPeer.java:150)
  at com.mathworks.hg.peer.JavaSceneServerPeer.<clinit>(JavaSceneServerPeer.java:120)
  at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
  at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264)
  at com.mathworks.mde.desk.StartupClassLoader.loadClass(StartupClassLoader.java:241)
  at com.mathworks.mde.desk.StartupClassLoader.access$800(StartupClassLoader.java:25)
  at com.mathworks.mde.desk.StartupClassLoader$2.run(StartupClassLoader.java:228)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Thanks and best regards!

Answer 1

[Joss Knight]

Try starting MATLAB without hardware rendering using the softwareopengl option, see if that fixes it:

matlab -softwareopengl

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

See https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/406258-startup-error-messages-and-malfunction-of-plot#answer_325214