Hi, did you try to recompile tf and all its dependencies? rosmake --pre-clean tf When did you upgrade to lucid? Did you have the ros installation before? Did you maybe change from 32 bit to 64 bit or vice versa? Lorenz > 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=