Strange. After running as root, and seeing this work, I got back to my normal user account, and it now works. Don't know if that'll be the case after a reboot, but this is strange. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Patrick Beeson wrote: > Yes indeed.  If I run as root, it succeeds. > > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:45 PM, William Woodall wrote: >> My coworker and I have discovered that it is a permissions problem, running >> roslaunch gazebo_worlds empty_world.launch as root allows gazebo to run >> normally. >> We are still looking into why that is, but I can only guess that it is >> because the location of the binaries are not writable by normal users. >> I would like to see if you can reproduce this result. >> Thanks, >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> William Woodall >> Graduate Software Engineering >> Auburn University >> w@auburn.edu >> wjwwood@gmail.com >> 256-345-9938 >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Patrick Beeson wrote: >>> >>> I'm seeing this as well, and I am running Lucid with an NVIDIA card >>> and the most current NVIDIA driver.  glxinfo and glxgears works fine, >>> so I'm unsure why OGRE is having problems.  I may try compiling the >>> source instead of installing pre-compiled binaries using apt. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, William Woodall wrote: >>> > I figured this might be the problem, however, parallels has some form of >>> > 3D >>> > acceleration, and I know this because I have rviz and compiz (visual >>> > effects) working in it.  Also, the boxturtle build of gazebo works just >>> > fine >>> > in my virtual machine, which leads me to believe it might be a bug or >>> > change >>> > in requirements from the previous version that is causing the error.  I >>> > will >>> > attempt to find a computer with a better video card and Ubuntu with >>> > which to >>> > test this theory, but I may not have one at my disposal. >>> > Does anyone know if the error I posted is specifically related to >>> > insufficient graphics capabilities? >>> > Thanks for your help so far, >>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> > William Woodall >>> > Graduate Software Engineering >>> > Auburn University >>> > w@auburn.edu >>> > wjwwood@gmail.com >>> > 256-345-9938 >>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> > >>> > >>> > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:13 PM, John Hsu >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Hi, >>> >> >>> >> What graphics card and driver do you have? >>> >> >>> >> Gazebo/Ogre needs hardware acceleration, from my experience parallel's >>> >> will not work.  Older ATI drivers also have incompatible OpenGL >>> >> implementations.  Most NVIDIA cards seems to run fine. >>> >> Please see >>> >> http://www.ros.org/wiki/simulator_gazebo/SystemRequirements >>> >> for list of tested cards and drivers. >>> >> >>> >> John >>> >> >>> >> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:40 PM, William Woodall >>> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> I am trying to use the cturtle binaries on ubuntu to experiment with >>> >>> gazebo's new features.  When I run `roslaunch gazebo_worlds >>> >>> empty_world.launch` I get this error: >>> >>> http://gist.github.com/430689 >>> >>> In trying to debug this we have tried to run this on two different >>> >>> macbook pros running ubuntu lucid in parallels and on a laptop running >>> >>> lucid >>> >>> that has an ati x1300 moble all with the same result. >>> >>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> >>> William Woodall >>> >>> Graduate Software Engineering >>> >>> Auburn University >>> >>> w@auburn.edu >>> >>> wjwwood@gmail.com >>> >>> 256-345-9938 >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> ros-users mailing list >>> >>> ros-users@code.ros.org >>> >>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >>> >>> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> ros-users mailing list >>> >> ros-users@code.ros.org >>> >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > ros-users mailing list >>> > ros-users@code.ros.org >>> > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ros-users mailing list >>> ros-users@code.ros.org >>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> >