Why do I receive License Manager Error -10?

Why do I receive the following error? 

ERROR: License Manager Error -10
License checkout failed. Feature has expired.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

License Manager Error -10 indicates that one or more of your products has expired.

• If you are receiving this when attempting to open MATLAB, try reactivating your machine using the following instructions.  

How do I activate MATLAB or other MathWorks Products?

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/99457

• If you are getting License Manager Error -10 when trying to use specific toolboxes, double check that the license has not expired. If it has, update it using the following instructions. 

How do I update my MATLAB license file for an Individual or Designated Computer license?

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/96751

• If you are using a network license, contact your License Administrator and ask them to make sure that the hosted license file is up to date.  
• If you are using a trial license, this error indicates that your trial has expired. To extend your trial, please contact your sales representative: https://www.mathworks.com/company/aboutus/contact_us/contact_sales.htm

[Ralhebshi]

Dear custemer service

I contact my sales representative but I didn't get any ansower, so how I can solve this problem?

I need it very ergent

With my regards

[e-mail]

[Walter Roberson]

Call Mathworks.

Very few of the volunteers who answer questions here have access to the license database.

[SOLOMON Bogale]

have no activation key

[Ryan Moxon]

I want to be able to access Mat Lab from my Laptop

[Walter Roberson]

@Ryan Moxon

The volunteers who answer questions here still do not have access to the license database. You are going to need to contact Mathworks.

[Sai Nitya Chatta]

Hello, I downloaded Matlab and this is my third week and the license for trial has alreeady expired. Can you please help me with it.

[Walter Roberson]

@Sai Nitya Chatta

Sorry, Mathworks Support does not read these questions, and the volunteers who answer questions here do not have access to the license database. You will need to contact Mathworks Sales to get your trial extended.

Answer 2

[Travis Hyzak]

We just installed this lcense a few weeks ago. Why has it expired. Please help!

[Walter Roberson]

DId you happen to have a trial installed before this? The trial license sometimes gets left behind and has to be deleted.

[Radoslav Malisic]

Yes,

No: 7xxxxxxxxx

[Radoslav Malisic]

OS: Windows 10

[Ryan Moxon]

Why is it that everytime I have Matlab on my computer and whenever I come to use it after a long time of not using it, I always seem to have problem accessing the Matlab

Answer 3

[Baasansuren Otgon]

I have this problem, please help, i just installed 3 days ago

[Walter Roberson]

DId you happen to have a trial installed before this? The trial license sometimes gets left behind and has to be deleted.

[Baasansuren Otgon]

Dear Walter

I used befor that the trial, then I bought it, When i was installing new one, it re-wrote on my drive. How can i delete the trial?

Thanks you

[Baasansuren Otgon]

I soved it, thanks, i deleted old trial licence LIC file from C drive

[Fairuz Zuhair Fulvian]

where is the LIC file that should be deleted?

[Walter Roberson]

Which operating system are you using, Fairuz?

[Radoslav Malisic]

Windows 10

Answer 4

[Xinyi Huang]

how to change the license's date

[Walter Roberson]

In some cases there is confusion between the license itself expiring, compared to Software Maintenence Service (SMS) expiring. SMS is the right to use new releases, and the right to use some online software, and (for some kinds of account) the right to make technical support calls. When SMS expires, the right to use MATLAB itself is not affected. Many licenses are "perpetual" -- you can use them indefinitely... you just do not get access to new versions if you do not pay SMS.

That said, some licenses do expire:

• Home licenses: always perpetual
• Student licenses: mathworks used to sell 8 month or 1 year licenses through campus bookstores, but I have not heard of that for a number of years and I do not know if that is still offered. The Student licenses purchased through the online store are Perpetual, but can only be used while the student is enrolled in an appropriate educational institution.
• MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses): Always Term licenses. The people running the MOOC are responsible for providing updated licenses if there is an extension.
• Standard (commercial / professional) licenses can be either Term or Perpetual. It is more common for Individual licenses to be Perpetual, but they could be Term. It is more common for places that have Term licenses to use Network license servers.
• Educational licenses: when purchased by individuals or small departments, it is more common for the licenses to be Perpetual. Total Academic Headcount licenses (the kind of license that permits students to use university licences to access MATLAB) are, if I understand correctly, always Term licences. There is, though, a twist, that any one licenses assigned under a TAH master license might be required to renew access even though the overall license has not expired, as TAH are charged according to the estimated number of users, so universities have reason to check that people who were using a license still need the license.

If you have an Individual license directly from Mathworks, or you are faculty or student using a TAH educational license, then to renew your license file (after all appropriate fees have been paid), then in your command window go to the top right, RESOURCES -> Help -> Licensing -> Update current licenses

If you are an end-user using a network license server at a university or business, then you would not typically have to update your licenses; but if it ever turns out to be necessary, you would do that same Update current licenses .

If you are IT staff managing a network license server, then you would pay appropriate fees to Mathworks who would send you an updated license file, which you would merge into your existing network license file. On Unix type systems, you would then typically send a SIGHUP to the license manager daemon to get it to re-read the license file without terminating any existing sessions. I do not recall at the moment if there is a lmgrd command to tell the daemon to reread the file.

Answer 5

[Mustafa Çevlik]

ı m student on electric and electrical engineering and ı need student license what can ı do for it?

[Walter Roberson]

A search finds several people with your name, including at Harvard, and at the place in Germany, and in several other countries.

Some universities supply licences to students. For some of those you have to contact university staff, and for others you just have to use your university email to sign up for MATLAB Central. https://www.mathworks.com/academia/tah-support-program/eligibility.html

[Eren Gündüz]

üniversitenin verdiği mail ile girebilirsiniz.

[Walter Roberson]

@Eren Gündüz that depends on the university. Some of them are configured that way, but for others you need to get the license from staff, and for other universities you need to buy individual licenses.

Answer 6

[Venkata Bindu Vusa]

licence failed

Answer 7

[Bindu Vusa]

lisence manager is error 10

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/93260-why-do-i-receive-license-manager-error-10#comment_1125805

Answer 8

[Celal Yilmaz]

Answer 9

[martim lopes]

MY License has already expired

[Salomon Kalombo]

how to renew the expired license for trial.

Answer 10

[Momir Babic]

Because, I need this program to teach kids in high school in classes Technical of digital signals.

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/academia/highschool.html

[Radoslav Malisic]

RM

Walter,

Can you renew my trial home license (trial_8006082_2020b.lic) - I need it to exercise more in order to know what to purchase?

Thank you in advance,

Radoslav

[Radoslav Malisic]

Actually can you extend my trial home license ...

RM

[Walter Roberson]

Sorry, almost none of the volunteers have access to the license database (and the one who does have access has not visited for a number of months.)

[Radoslav Malisic]

License No: 7xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

RM

Answer 11

[LIN HUNGCHENG]

We just installed this lcense a few months ago. Why has it expired. Please help!

[Walter Roberson]

If you have any trial license file then the trial license keeps getting used until it expires, even if a real license is installed. If this might be happening to you, delete the trial license files.

Answer 12

[SYED NOMAN ALI]

sir my trial is expire what i am doing konw

please give me licence activation link

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/99457-how-do-i-activate-matlab-or-other-mathworks-products#answer_108804

If you have been using a trial license, it is best to delete (or rename) the trial license file, to prevent it from interfering with the real license. Information about your real license should have been sent to you when you made your purchase.

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/99147-where-can-i-find-matlab-license-files#answer_108494

Answer 13

[REBIN SAMAD]

my matlab had to update im not now how matlab activity

Answer 14

[Lusungu Ndovi]

Dear Sir/Madam,

My License has expire and would to humbly request for a trial exptension. I am a student studying for a PhD here in Zambia. My scholarship does not facilitate for software buying and hence i am expecting to have the 60 Dollars for buying the student version in about 2 weeks time. I will then purchase my own copy.

I humbly request.

Best regards,

Lusungu

[Walter Roberson]

Sorry, the volunteers who answer questions here do not have access to the license database. You will need to contact Mathworks Sales.

Answer 15

[Achraf tafla]

what is the lisence of matlab

[SOLOMON Bogale]

to install matlab

Answer 16

[REBIN SAMAD]

[e-mail]

i need to a number of license for kay active

[Walter Roberson]

It looks to me as if you need to contact Mathworks Sales in Ireland if you want to purchase a license.

https://www.mathworks.com/company/aboutus/contact_us.html#IQ

If you have an existing license but are having problems getting it to work, then please contact Mathworks Support.

Answer 17

[Victor Polinger]

My license for Symbolic_Toolbox has expired. How do I activate it?

[Walter Roberson]

I find hints that you are staff at a university? If so then you would probably be using an educational license. But that leaves open the question of whether you are using an individual license or if you are getting your license served by a license manager run by your department (or by the IT department) .

If you are using an individual license, then whoever's budget it is would contact Mathworks Sales to renew the license. Once that was done and Mathworks had updated the licenses online, you would use Help -> Licensing -> Update Current License

Answer 18

[Anisur Rahaman]

ERROR: License Manager Error -10

License checkout failed. Feature has expired.

my id is <user>@njupt.edu.cn

i cant do anything over here..

[Walter Roberson]

See https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/93260-why-do-i-receive-license-manager-error-10#comment_1125805

Note: the volunteers who answer question here do not have access to the license database, so we cannot check the status of your account.

Answer 19

[淳亮 梁]

well, I found that I can not open the software after finish the promission procedure. why?

Answer 20

[Guan-Chyun Hsieh]

my license is 4XXXXXXXX， but don't connect to work.

Thank you.

[Walter Roberson]

You will need to contact Mathwork Support for free installation assistance. The volunteers who answer questions here do not have access to the license database, so we cannot look to see what is happening.

Answer 21

[Jonas Urbaitis]

Hello

Maybe i can get one month free trial for MathLab? Its dificult find time studying when have go to work.

[Walter Roberson]

You might possibly be eligible for a trial; see https://www.mathworks.com/campaigns/products/trials.html

The volunteers who answer questions here do not have access to the license database, and cannot generate trial keys.

Answer 22

[REDDY RAVI TEJA]

yes i need one month

[Walter Roberson]

You might possibly be eligible for a trial; see https://www.mathworks.com/campaigns/products/trials.html

The volunteers who answer questions here do not have access to the license database, and cannot generate trial keys.

Answer 23

[xiaohu Xie]

free version。but the time out

Answer 24

[JAEKWAN BAE]

If you update your OS windows10 to windows 11, then you should activate one more time!

Answer 25

[Firas Kadhum]

I need an extension to complete the current school year

[Walter Roberson]

If you have a Student license, then as far as I know, no extensions are available. However, Student licenses do not normally expire (they could expire at one time, but I have not heard of anyone with that kind of license in 5+ years)

If you have an Academic license, or a Standard license, then whoever paid for the license can pay for an extension. Academic and Standard licenses are both available for Term or Perpetual licenses.

There is one kind of license that inherently expires. MOOC licenses expire in anywhere from a few weeks to six months or so, depending on what the institution arranged. If you have a MOOC licence that is expiring then the person who issued your license is expected to handle any extension.

Answer 26

[小竹 袁]

1212

[Walter Roberson]

That would probably be -1,212 instead of -1212 .

I see on some other sites that -1,212 is most often associated with the license server being unable to read the license file because the filesystem permissions have been set in a way that permission to access the license file is denied.

Answer 27

[Vikash sharma]

Maybe i can get one month free trial for MathLab? Its dificult find time studying when have go to work.

[Walter Roberson]

@Vikash sharma

As far as I have been able to tell, trials are not available for Student licenses.

[Walter Roberson]

@Vikash sharma

I have been informed that Students can generally get trial licenses. I have not, however, been given any information about why trials might be refused.

Answer 28

[Hector Gelber Bolaños]

No puedo instalar me sale error y que la licencia se vencio

[Walter Roberson]

Deberá ponerse en contacto con el soporte de Mathworks. Los voluntarios no tienen acceso a la base de datos de licencias.

Answer 29

[joel carranza]

que paso

[Walter Roberson]

Deberá ponerse en contacto con el soporte de Mathworks. Los voluntarios no tienen acceso a la base de datos de licencias.

Answer 30

[Joel Ayala]

no responde

Answer 31

[Firas Kadhum]

Iam an engineering student and I really need the Matlab.

I am an engineering student and I need the program for my studies

[Walter Roberson]

@Firas Kadhum

https://www.mathworks.com/store/link/products/student/new?s_iid=htb_buy_gtwy_cta3

Answer 32

[Dalia SAFA]

lisence expired

[Walter Roberson]

If you have a Student license, then as far as I know, no extensions are available. However, Student licenses do not normally expire (they could expire at one time, but I have not heard of anyone with that kind of license in 5+ years)

If you have an Academic license, or a Standard license, then whoever paid for the license can pay for an extension. Academic and Standard licenses are both available for Term or Perpetual licenses.

There is one kind of license that inherently expires. MOOC licenses expire in anywhere from a few weeks to six months or so, depending on what the institution arranged. If you have a MOOC licence that is expiring then the person who issued your license is expected to handle any extension.

Answer 33

[Raj purohith Bhagavan]

give me the license

[DGM]

Did you by chance notice that there are answers at the top of the page? ... and repeated numerous times throughout the page? Have you considered reading them? If you found them insufficient, is there a good reason to not explain why?

[Walter Roberson]

I cannot give you a license. Under the Terms and Conditions of the licence I obtained from Mathworks, the only people who I can permit to use my licenses, are people who are my employees... and you are not one of my employees. If I were to give you a license, then Mathworks would cancel my license.

Answer 34

[Nabil Rousan]

Have not used this device for some time

[Walter Roberson]

When you obtained your license before, did you obtain the 4 month Student license, or the 8 month Student license, or the 1 year student licence? As best I understand those time-limited student licenses were only available through Campus bookstores. I think it has been at least 5 years since I last heard of one being sold.

Answer 35

[Manuel Alonso Jiménez]

Have not used MATHlab for some time too

[Image Analyst]

Manuel, the answer has already been given many, many times:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/93260-why-am-i-getting-license-manager-error-10#comment_1585190

Basically CALL THEM. I urge to to do it NOW, before the weekend starts or you will go until Tuesday (Monday is a US holiday) without it. Please tell me you're going to call them and talk to a real live friendly person today.

Answer 36

[Mehmet Osman BURSALIOGLU]

I'm Univercity sutudent, my mail adress is (number) @ogrenci.ege.edu.tr my lisence number is 4XXXXXXXXXX . I accidentally deactiveted my Matlab. Can you reactive my license, thank you for your help.

[Walter Roberson]

You can activate MATLAB yourself; see

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/99457-how-do-i-activate-matlab-or-other-mathworks-products?s_tid=srchtitle

Answer 37

[aboud rahman]

Where can I get the activation key?

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/102845-where-can-i-find-the-activation-key-and-file-installation-key-fik-for-my-license?s_tid=srchtitle

Answer 38

[Yawo Luc AMEMATSRON]

I d'ont have another licence. please help me!

[Walter Roberson]

Please see https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/93260-why-am-i-getting-license-manager-error-10#answer_529919

Answer 39

[Samuel OGUNYAKIN]

Hi,

How do i get an activation key for my Mathlab software

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/102845-where-can-i-find-the-activation-key-and-file-installation-key-fik-for-my-license?s_tid=srchtitle

Answer 40

[Muhammad Awais]

i want to licened my matlab

Answer 41

[sara soudani]

no answer

[Walter Roberson]

I am not sure why you say that? Mathworks has posted an official response, and I personally have commented a fair number of times here. Why do you say that there has been no answer?

Answer 42

[Demah Almutairi]

ERROR: License Manager Error -10

License checkout failed. Feature has expired.

[John Myers]

How do I purchase access to `random'?

[Walter Roberson]

random() is part of the Statistics and Machine Learning toolbox

https://www.mathworks.com/help/stats/prob.normaldistribution.random.html

Answer 43

[Mohammad Isa Irawan]

Hallo, why my institution licence is expired? How can I get a new licence?

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/93260-why-am-i-getting-license-manager-error-10#comment_1125805

Answer 44

[Marisol Lope Torres]

se vencio la licencia

Answer 45

[Ferdinand Bogos]

reset to matlab end file pathern

[Walter Roberson]

Could you explain in more details?

Answer 46

[Aditya Dixit]

Hello,, can you please renew my license of matlab. Last time I couldn't complete my course because of some family crisis. i want need now.

[Walter Roberson]

@Aditya Dixit

Unfortunately, Mathworks Support does not read these responses. You will need to contact Mathworks Support to check your license status.

Answer 47

[Marco Rosales Vera]

Buenos días, acá en utem me dicen que la licencia se pagó y debiese estar funcionando.

[Walter Roberson]

Please contact Mathwork Support. The volunteers who answer questions here do not have access to the license database.

Answer 48

[Jane McKay]

can I use the matlab without license? I bought the matlab since 2021 student using. how can I update otherwise?

[Walter Roberson]

MATLAB requires a license to run.

If you purchased MATLAB yourself, then it is unlikely that the license has expired -- but your Software Maintenence Service might have expired. SMS for Student licenses is the right to update to newer versions, and is different from the right to run the version you already have.

Answer 49

[Kenyi Mendoza]

I want to activate my trial matlaba license again, please, I am doing university work, I await your prompt response, thank you very much first of all

Error -10, could you please activate my test product again, it is for personal use

[Walter Roberson]

You might be able to simply request a new trial; however if the automated trial system does sometimes reject requests, in which case you would need to talk to Mathworks Sales.

The volunteers who answer questions here do not have access to the license database and cannot issue licenses.

Answer 50

[Parthiban]

ERROR: License Manager Error -10

License checkout failed. Feature has expired.

[Walter Roberson]

The volunteers who answer questions here do not have access to the license database. If the steps described in https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/93260-why-do-i-receive-license-manager-error-10#answer_102609 do not help then you will need to contact Mathworks Support or Mathworks Sales

Answer 51

[Muhammad Zeeshan Ahmed Khan]

How can I activate my matlab on trial as previously I was using academic licence

[Image Analyst]

Contact the sales dapartment tomorrow.

[Walter Roberson]

If you are using MATLAB installed locally, then look in the main MATLAB installation directory for a deactivation exe . Run that to remove the license, and then run the activation exe in the same directory to activate against the trial license.

In theory you could just run the activation instead of deactivating first, but MATLAB will not remove the old license file in that situation, as it is common for people to get trial licenses for individual toolboxes while still using the original license.

Answer 52

[DANIEL K]

the software is saying my liences expires but i am a student of north dakota university

[Walter Roberson]

Universities that issue licenses to students have the ability to make the license be for a limited time, after which the student may have to go through some kind of internal renewal process. In some cases the student needs to fill out an online form specific to the university; in other cases the IT people are given lists of students who have enrolled in courses that use MATLAB and set the termination date based upon the most recent information they have.

It is possible that you might already have been granted a renewal through internal processes. To find out, use the command window Help -> Licensing -> Update current licenses... to load in the latest license associated with your account.

Answer 53