Hey Dejan, I'm running boxturtle I already checked with roswtf and it doesn't complain: 1413 ros % roswtf 2010-05-07 20:52:02 flixr pts/2 Loaded plugin tf.tfwtf Stack: ros ================================================================================ Static checks summary: No errors or warnings ================================================================================ ROS Master does not appear to be running. Online graph checks will not be run. ROS_MASTER_URI is [http://localhost:11311] cheers, Felix On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Dejan Pangercic wrote: > Hi Felix, > first off did you install stable, trunk or latest? > Furthermore, gdb will not work for pyhton nodes, sorry I did not > realize before it was about python. You would need to use pdb instead. > Can you run roswtf  and post please? > > cheers, D. > > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Felix Ruess wrote: >> Dejan, >> >> I attached the full backtrace in case this is of any help... >> Thanks a lot! >> >> Cheers, Felix >> >> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Felix Ruess wrote: >>> Tully, >>> >>> thanks for the hint! I did a svn up in joystick_drivers and there now >>> it is already added in the dep file :-) >>> And yes, that is not the problem causing the segfault. >>> >>> Dejan, >>> >>> finally found out how to debug the python program with gdb (removed >>> the node from the launch file and ran gdb python seperately). >>> here is the trace: >>> >>> (gdb) run turtle_tf_listener.py __name:=turtle_listener >>> Starting program: /usr/bin/python turtle_tf_listener.py __name:=turtle_listener >>> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] >>> [New Thread 0x25a8b70 (LWP 7159)] >>> [New Thread 0x2da9b70 (LWP 7160)] >>> [New Thread 0x35b6b70 (LWP 7161)] >>> [Thread 0x35b6b70 (LWP 7161) exited] >>> [New Thread 0x35b6b70 (LWP 7166)] >>> [New Thread 0x3db7b70 (LWP 7170)] >>> [New Thread 0x45b8b70 (LWP 7173)] >>> [New Thread 0x4db9b70 (LWP 7175)] >>> [Thread 0x45b8b70 (LWP 7173) exited] >>> >>> Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction. >>> [Switching to Thread 0x4db9b70 (LWP 7175)] >>> 0x0051c203 in ros::TimeBase::fromSec >>> (obj=