My coworker and I have discovered that it is a permissions problem, running
roslaunch gazebo_worlds empty_world.launch as root allows gazebo to run
normally.

We are still looking into why that is, but I can only guess that it is
because the location of the binaries are not writable by normal users.

I would like to see if you can reproduce this result.

Thanks,

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
William Woodall
Graduate Software Engineering
Auburn University
w@auburn.edu
wjwwood@gmail.com
256-345-9938
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Patrick Beeson <beeson.p@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm seeing this as well, and I am running Lucid with an NVIDIA card
> and the most current NVIDIA driver.  glxinfo and glxgears works fine,
> so I'm unsure why OGRE is having problems.  I may try compiling the
> source instead of installing pre-compiled binaries using apt.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, William Woodall <wjwwood@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I figured this might be the problem, however, parallels has some form of
> 3D
> > acceleration, and I know this because I have rviz and compiz (visual
> > effects) working in it.  Also, the boxturtle build of gazebo works just
> fine
> > in my virtual machine, which leads me to believe it might be a bug or
> change
> > in requirements from the previous version that is causing the error.  I
> will
> > attempt to find a computer with a better video card and Ubuntu with which
> to
> > test this theory, but I may not have one at my disposal.
> > Does anyone know if the error I posted is specifically related to
> > insufficient graphics capabilities?
> > Thanks for your help so far,
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > William Woodall
> > Graduate Software Engineering
> > Auburn University
> > w@auburn.edu
> > wjwwood@gmail.com
> > 256-345-9938
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:13 PM, John Hsu <johnhsu@willowgarage.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> What graphics card and driver do you have?
> >>
> >> Gazebo/Ogre needs hardware acceleration, from my experience parallel's
> >> will not work.  Older ATI drivers also have incompatible OpenGL
> >> implementations.  Most NVIDIA cards seems to run fine.
> >> Please see
> >> http://www.ros.org/wiki/simulator_gazebo/SystemRequirements
> >> for list of tested cards and drivers.
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:40 PM, William Woodall <wjwwood@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I am trying to use the cturtle binaries on ubuntu to experiment with
> >>> gazebo's new features.  When I run `roslaunch gazebo_worlds
> >>> empty_world.launch` I get this error:
> >>> http://gist.github.com/430689
> >>> In trying to debug this we have tried to run this on two different
> >>> macbook pros running ubuntu lucid in parallels and on a laptop running
> lucid
> >>> that has an ati x1300 moble all with the same result.
> >>> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>> William Woodall
> >>> Graduate Software Engineering
> >>> Auburn University
> >>> w@auburn.edu
> >>> wjwwood@gmail.com
> >>> 256-345-9938
> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>>
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