Just to add a data point, I also crashed when using gazebo in cturtle (it was fine in boxturtle and latest), but after running it once as root, everything seems to work fine in my regular account. --Adam Adam Leeper Stanford University aleeper@stanford.edu 719.358.3804 On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Patrick Beeson wrote: > If I encounter this again, I'll try this solution. But as of now, after > running as root, and now even after reboot, it simply works. Maybe > there was an issue with shared memory that needed a reboot or root > permissions to fix. > > On 06/12/2010 04:11 PM, John Hsu wrote: > > ticketed on trac , thanks > > for the reports. I can't reproduce the error at the moment, but if > > someone can, can you please try to clear out the shared memory segments > > as described here > > < > http://www.ros.org/wiki/simulator_gazebo/Troubleshooting#Error:_failed_to_allocate_semaphore.2C_permission_denied > .> > > first and see if it helps? > > thanks, > > John > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Patrick Beeson > > wrote: > > > > Strange. After running as root, and seeing this work, I got back to > > my normal user account, and it now works. Don't know if that'll be > > the case after a reboot, but this is strange. > > > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Patrick Beeson > > wrote: > > > Yes indeed. If I run as root, it succeeds. > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:45 PM, William Woodall > > > wrote: > > >> 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 > > > 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 > > > 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 > > > > > >>> > 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 > > > > > >>> >> 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 > > >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > >>> >>> > > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ > > >>> >>> ros-users mailing list > > >>> >>> ros-users@code.ros.org > > >>> >>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > >>> >>> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> _______________________________________________ > > >>> >> ros-users mailing list > > >>> >> ros-users@code.ros.org > > >>> >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > >>> >> > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > _______________________________________________ > > >>> > ros-users mailing list > > >>> > ros-users@code.ros.org > > >>> > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> _______________________________________________ > > >>> ros-users mailing list > > >>> ros-users@code.ros.org > > >>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > >> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> ros-users mailing list > > >> ros-users@code.ros.org > > >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > >> > > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ros-users mailing list > > ros-users@code.ros.org > > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ros-users mailing list > > ros-users@code.ros.org > > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >