I'm having the same problem but extended with a rosnode that isn't
responding but is publishing (double red circle) that I don't want to be
killed.

On 13 April 2010 10:22, Rosen Diankov <rosen.diankov@gmail.com> wrote:

> If processes immediately die without properly calling the ros shutdown
> methods, the node will stay registered with the core forever. the
> result is that the rxgraph slowly gets cluttered with dead nodes and
> makes it really inconvenient. we've tried 'rosnode kill', but that
> doesn't seem to un-register the node. because we want to keep a
> roscore constantly running on every robot, we cannot just restart the
> roscore....
>
> given that nodes will always have bugs that cause immediate shutdown,
> is there any way to at least get rxgraph to stop displaying them?
>
> thank you,
> rosen,
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