Run as root, that solved the issue for me, and for some others on the
mailing list.  After running as root once I am able to run it normally for
then on, though I think others have had to run as root everytime.

Hope that helps,

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


On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:11 PM, David Lu!! <davidlu@wustl.edu> wrote:

> While trying to start Gazebo with the empty world, Gazebo will open up the
> window for a second, then crash, producing the following error.
>
> terminate called after throwing an instance of
> 'Ogre::InvalidParametersException'
>   what():  OGRE EXCEPTION(2:InvalidParametersException): Named constants
> have not been initialised, perhaps a compile error. in
> GpuProgramParameters::_findNamedConstantDefinition at
> /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks/visualization_common/ogre/build/ogre_src_v1-7-1/OgreMain/src/OgreGpuProgramParams.cpp
> (line 1423)
> [gazebo-2] process has died [pid 4498, exit code -6].
> log files:
> /home/dlu/.ros/log/d13697a0-7f0a-11df-ab6d-00016c520afb/gazebo-2*.log
>
> The log files are copied below.
>
> This is based on the 10.04 precompiled binaries. Does anyone know how to
> set these parameters?
>
> Thanks,
> David!!
>
> $ more ~/.ros/log/d13697a0-7f0a-11df-ab6d-00016c520afb/gazebo-2-stdout.log
> Gazebo successfully initialized
> $ more ~/.ros/log/d13697a0-7f0a-11df-ab6d-00016c520afb/gazebo-2.log
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,331] [thread 0xb68d6ac0]: [DEBUG]
> Enabling TCP Keepalive on socket [7]
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,332] [thread 0xb68d6ac0]: [DEBUG]
> UDPROS server listening on port [39625]
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,332] [thread 0xb68d6ac0]: [DEBUG]
> enableRead() on UDPROS socket [8]
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,338] [thread 0xb68d6ac0]: [DEBUG]
> Publisher update for [/clock]:  already have these connections:
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,338] [thread 0xb68d6ac0]: [DEBUG]
> Started node [/gazebo], pid [4498], bound on [ubuntu-dlu], xmlrpc port
> [42911], tcpros port [40352], logging to
> [/home/dlu/.ros/log/d13697a0-7f0a-11df-
> ab6d-00016c520afb/gazebo-2.log], using [sim] time
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,363] [thread 0xb68d6ac0]: [DEBUG]
> Publisher update for [/gazebo/set_link_state]:  already have these
> connections:
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,364] [thread 0xb68d6ac0]: [DEBUG]
> Publisher update for [/gazebo/set_model_state]:  already have these
> connections:
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,364] [thread 0xb68d6ac0]: [DEBUG]
> Creating intraprocess link for topic [/clock]
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,420] [thread 0xb60d4b70]: [DEBUG]
> Publisher update for [/clock]: http://ubuntu-dlu:42911/,  already have
> these connections: http://ubuntu-dlu:42911/,
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,443] [thread 0xb68d5b70]: [DEBUG]
> Accepted connection on socket [11]
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,443] [thread 0xb68d5b70]: [DEBUG]
> Enabling TCP Keepalive on socket [11]
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,443] [thread 0xb68d5b70]: [DEBUG]
> TCPROS received a connection from [127.0.1.1:48732]
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,444] [thread 0xb68d5b70]: [DEBUG]
> Connection: Creating TransportSubscriberLink for topic [/rosout] connected
> to [callerid=[/rosout] address=[TCPROS connection to [127.0.1.1:48732 on
> soc
> ket 11]]]
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,444] [thread 0xb68d5b70]: [DEBUG]
> Accepted connection on socket [12]
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,444] [thread 0xb68d5b70]: [DEBUG]
> Enabling TCP Keepalive on socket [12]
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,444] [thread 0xb68d5b70]: [DEBUG]
> TCPROS received a connection from [127.0.1.1:48733]
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-06-23 14:03:48,444] [thread 0xb68d5b70]: [DEBUG]
> Connection: Creating TransportSubscriberLink for topic [/clock] connected to
> [callerid=[/rosout] address=[TCPROS connection to [127.0.1.1:48733 on sock
> et 12]]]
>
>
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