The ssh session cannot handle with the OpenGL environment that is
needed for the display, even with ssh -X.
The solution is on your local PC to export the ROS_MASTER_URI of the
robot, and display it on your local PC.

Koen

On 19 January 2011 11:41, Christian Mock
<christian.mock.chrimo@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi ROS-Users,
>
> I'm running a headless robot and like to use rviz for development...
> RVIZ works fine with local X, but when I try to do the same from a
> remote X-Server the rviz gui crashes...
>
> /opt/ros/cturtle/ros/bin/rosrun: Zeile 35:  8090 Segmentation fault
> (Speicherabzug geschrieben) $exepath "$@"
>
> Any practical ideas, who to use rviz from remote stations ?
>
> Possible workaround: install ROS local and overwrite the environment
> ROS_MASTER_URI=http://<remote_ip>:<port>/
>
> Cheers
> Christian
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