Have you confirmed that you can receive tf messages outside rviz?

Josh

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:08 PM, <gavin@mc-carter.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
> I have been working with a urdf model for a while in boxturtle and recently
> I've made the jump to cturtle. My issue now is that when I fire up Rviz, my
> model (except for the base link) shows up as a jumbled mess and Rviz is
> giving me a Robot error saying it's not receiving a transform to all the
> links from the base link.  After a few minutes, Rviz will realize that it is
> receiving messages and the change the robot status to OK and then after a
> little while more the mess will show up as the model.
>
> It's also worth it to note I am getting this in the terminal when I launch
> Rviz:
>
> ----
> gavin@gavindesktop:~/.ros/log$ rosrun rviz rviz
> shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access
> parent directories: No such file or directory
> [ INFO] [1280358272.133360507]: Loading general config from
> [/home/gavin/.rviz/config]
> [ INFO] [1280358272.136910175]: Loading display config from
> [/home/gavin/.rviz/display_config]
> sh: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory
> sh: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory
>
> ________________
>
> It's also noteworthy that the machine I'm working on is super old (and
> fairly slow)
>
> Thanks in advance
> -Gavin
>
> _______________________________________________
> ros-users mailing list
> ros-users@code.ros.org
> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users
>
>