You should replace 'robot_name' with the address of where your robot/roscore is. In this case, you should probably set: export ROS_MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11311 Hope this helps, Ken On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:04 AM, j2eegirl wrote: > > I run the beginner_turtle package. First, I run the command roscore. It seems > all right. But when running the talker and listener, the screen displays > Failed to contact the master at robot_name: 11311. > How to deal with it? Thank you. > -- > View this message in context: http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/Failed-to-contact-the-master-at-robot-name-11311-tp943764p943764.html > Sent from the ROS-Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ros-users > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >