Matlab R2017b crashes on Ubuntu 16.04 when performing certain operations

I have a very weird problem I discovered doing some signal processing with Matlab 2017b on Ubuntu 16.04. I was running a bit of Savitzky-Golay filtering on a very manageable vector (<1000 elements), and Matlab went completely unresponsive. The GUI displayed "Busy..." as if it were actually processing a command, but the terminal in background showed this message:

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no nativeservices in java.library.path
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1867)
  at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:870)
  at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1122)
  at com.mathworks.services.Prefs.<clinit>(Prefs.java:188)
  at com.mathworks.fatalexit.SendReportPanel.<init>(SendReportPanel.java:61)
  at com.mathworks.fatalexit.FatalExitFrame.<init>(FatalExitFrame.java:198)
  at com.mathworks.fatalexit.FatalExitFrame$13.run(FatalExitFrame.java:905)
  at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:311)
  at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:756)
  at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
  at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
  at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
  at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
  at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:726)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: com.mathworks.services.Prefs.nativeGetPreferencesDirectory()Ljava/lang/String;
  at com.mathworks.services.Prefs.nativeGetPreferencesDirectory(Native Method)
  at com.mathworks.services.Prefs.getPropertyDirectory(Prefs.java:229)
  at com.mathworks.services.Prefs.load(Prefs.java:302)
  at com.mathworks.services.Prefs.<clinit>(Prefs.java:195)
  at com.mathworks.fatalexit.SendReportPanel.<init>(SendReportPanel.java:61)
  at com.mathworks.fatalexit.FatalExitFrame.<init>(FatalExitFrame.java:198)
  at com.mathworks.fatalexit.FatalExitFrame$13.run(FatalExitFrame.java:905)
  at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:311)
  at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:756)
  at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
  at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
  at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
  at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
  at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:726)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)

After few moments of waiting (around 1 minute, which should be more than enough considered I'm running on an i7 processor and with more than 30 gigs of RAM) I had to kill the process because it was completely frozen.

I have no idea what to do with it and why this happens only when performing certain operations. Any ideas would be very appreciated!