Dear all, I just found out, that for the file /pcl/src/tools/pcd_to_pointcloud.cpp an attached patch fixes the problem. To my understanding the error must be thus caused by rosout correct? cheers, D. On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Hozefa Indorewala wrote: > Dear Radu, > > I switched to the trunk of PCL but unfortunately, keep getting the same > error. Upon Dejan's advice I went back to an older revision (nr 29935) but > didn't help. > > Any suggestions? > > The svn url I used is: > https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/point_cloud_perception/trunk > > Thanks. > > Best Regards, > > Hozefa > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Radu Bogdan Rusu > wrote: >> >> Hozefa, >> >> This is fixed in the trunk of PCL already. I will make a release soon into >> cturtle. >> >> Cheers, >> Radu. >> >> On 06/13/2010 07:44 AM, Hozefa Indorewala wrote: >> > Dear ROS community, >> > >> > I am running the very latest ROS revision (Number: 30225) and while >> > running pcd_to_pointcloud on a simple pcd file (herewith attached), I am >> > faced with the following error: >> > >> > Caught exception while logging: [Cannot use ros::Time before calling >> > ros::init] >> > >> > Has any of you encountered such an error and solved it? If so, please do >> > share your solution :-) . >> > >> > Cheers, >> > >> > Hozefa >> > >> > -- >> > Hozefa Indorewala >> > >> > BSc. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science >> > Jacobs University Bremen >> > Campus Ring 1 | Bremen 28759 | Germany >> > >> > Email: h.indorewala@jacobs-university.de >> > >> > >> > http://www.jacobs-university.de/eecs/ >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > ros-users mailing list >> > ros-users@code.ros.org >> > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> -- >> | Radu Bogdan Rusu | http://rbrusu.com/ > > > > -- > Hozefa Indorewala > > BSc. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science > Jacobs University Bremen > Campus Ring 1 | Bremen 28759 | Germany > > Email:               h.indorewala@jacobs-university.de > > http://www.jacobs-university.de/eecs/ > -- MSc. Dejan Pangercic PhD Student/Researcher Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group Technische Universität München Telephone: +49 (89) 289-26908 E-Mail: dejan.pangercic@cs.tum.edu WWW: http://ias.cs.tum.edu/people/pangercic