Hi Mansimar, The baddrawable error is most likely a graphics card / driver OpenGL compatibility issue. can you post some details of the setup you are using (OS, graphics card and driver)? Please see herefor some working graphics card/driver combos. thanks, John On Mar 20, 2010 8:12 PM, "mansi aneja" wrote: Hey, Im a newbie with ROS and Im trying to run the default gazebo world file roslaunch gazebo_worlds empty_world.launch when I try this the GUI shows up and then crashes with the following erroran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Request.136: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 0x4400002 do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don't seem to be working correctly. Try adjusting the vblank_mode configuration parameter. [gazebo-2] process has died [pid 8925, exit code -11]. log files: /home/jaimeenk/.ros/log/a2a0ef3e-3492-11df-8ced-0022fbd313b4/gazebo-2*.log on checking my log file I get the following output ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [/opt/ros/boxturtle/stacks/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/gazebo-svn/server/GazeboConfig.cc:124] Unable to find the file ~/.gazeborc. Using default paths. This may cause OGRE to fail. directory [/tmp/gazebo-jaimeenk-0] already exists (previous crash?) but the owner gazebo server (pid=8751) is not running. deleting the old information of the directory [/tmp/gazebo-jaimeenk-0] Gazebo successfully initialized Should I need to define my path for gazebo in the bashrc file? Best -- Mansimar Singh Aneja ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ 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