Actually the system is running mint 9 which is derived from 10.04,
previously I had overcome this using export ROSDEP_OS_NAME=ubuntu and export
ROSDEP_OS_VERSION=xxx which worked during karmic days. but anyway, I will
just use the patch then.


thanks

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Tully Foote <tfoote@willowgarage.com>wrote:

> Billy,
> rosdep is having trouble detecting your OS.  It's falsely detecting Mint
> instead of lucid.  What are your outputs for "lsb_release -sc" and
> "lsb_release -sr"?  Below is a quick patch for Mint 9 support.  Which is the
> error you are getting, but shouldn't be getting because you're not running
> Mint.
>
> Tully
>
> Patch for rosdep Mint 9 support.
> Index: src/rosdep/debian.py
> ===================================================================
> --- src/rosdep/debian.py (revision 9786)
> +++ src/rosdep/debian.py (working copy)
> @@ -114,7 +114,8 @@
>
>      def __init__(self):
>          self.mint_detector = roslib.os_detect.Mint()
> -        self.version_map = {'8':'9.10',
> +        self.version_map = {'9':'10.04',
> +                            '8':'9.10',
>                              '7':'9.04',
>                              '6':'8.10',
>                              '5':'8.04'}
>
>
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Billy Okal <b.okal@jacobs-university.de>wrote:
>
>> Dear ROS devs,
>>
>> I am setting up ros on a new machine running Lucid but I am experiencing
>> problem with rosmake terminating with a bad exit status evrytime. I have
>> tried both base install and pr2 install just to check and the same thing
>> happens, I have attached a log of what exactly happens, but basically, the
>> last few lines look like this
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/home/makokal/rosinstall", line 326, in <module>
>>     sys.exit(rosinstall_main(sys.argv) or 0)
>>   File "/home/makokal/rosinstall", line 319, in rosinstall_main
>>     subprocess.check_call("source %s && rosmake rostest --rosdep-install"
>> % (os.path.join(options.path, 'setup.sh')), shell=True,
>> executable='/bin/bash')
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 498, in check_call
>>     raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
>> subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'source /home/makokal/ros/setup.sh
>> && rosmake rostest --rosdep-install' returned non-zero exit status 1
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> billy
>>
>>
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