Those lines are not meant to be inserted into your .bashrc. So: 1) open up a terminal 2) type those four lines and everything should work thereafter. - Bhaskara On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Sam Quintanar wrote: > Everything concerning ROS installation ran great on day 1. > On day two, I logged into Ubuntu 10.04 and then opened a terminal with > command "gnome-terminal" only to watch the terminal hang and it worked fine > before I added the following as per ROS instructions: > > echo "source /home/sam/ros/setup.sh" >> ~/.bashrc > . ~/.bashrc > > echo "source /home/sam/ros-tutorials/setup.sh" >> ~/.bashrc > . ~/.bashrc. > > I opened the bashrc file in my home dir and found that it generated an > infinite number of > "source /home/sam/ros-tutorials/setup.sh" strings in the file appearing > after my last entry above. > > I removed the 4 lines I added above and the terminal opened fine, but now I > must manually type into the terminal prompt: > source /home/sam/ros/setup.sh > source /home/sam/ros-tutorials/setup.sh > > and all is well, but it would be nice to have the .bashrc automatically do > this instead of my manually doing it repeatedly. > > I'm not well versed with bash or terminal usage yet (new to Linux), so > maybe I've don't something wrong. > > Please advise. > > SamQ > > ------------------------------ > Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your > inbox. Learn more. > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > -- Bhaskara Marthi Research Scientist Willow Garage Inc. 650-475-2856