Andreas-
    I had the same problem on my laptop creep up about three weeks ago. An
earlier thread on ros-users helped me fix it (
http://code.ros.org/lurker/message/20101108.082456.79ecfaed.en.html). The
quick work-around (thanks to Jack O'Quinn) is:

 $ export STAGEPATH=/etc/X11

Kevin

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Andreas Baldinger <
e0929191@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> A week ago stageros worked perfectly. Now I tried to start again and I
> always get the same error:
>
> [ INFO] [1290356178.217601386]: Starting program...
> [ INFO] [1290356178.217768326]: Waiting for sensor data...
> XRequest.137: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 0x5400004
> [stageros-2] process has died [pid 16149, exit code -11].
>
> The problem is I donīt really know what I changed in this week and I
> couldnīt find any useful information so far.
> The log-file contains:
>
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-11-21 17:16:18,316] [thread 0x7fe960960840]:
> [DEBUG] UDPROS server listening on port [51346]
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-11-21 17:16:18,322] [thread 0x7fe960960840]:
> [DEBUG] Started node [/stageros], pid [16149], bound on [ndsnotebook],
> xmlrpc port [44758], tcpros port [54024], logging to
>
> [/home/andreasbaldinger/.ros/log/aba5a5f2-f58a-11df-bc8a-0024545bc34c/stageros-2.log],
> using   [real] time
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-11-21 17:16:18,342] [thread 0x7fe94d15c710]:
> [DEBUG] Accepted connection on socket [10], new socket [15]
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-11-21 17:16:18,342] [thread 0x7fe94d15c710]:
> [DEBUG] TCPROS received a connection from [127.0.1.1:34869]
> [roscpp_internal] [2010-11-21 17:16:18,342] [thread 0x7fe94d15c710]:
> [DEBUG] Connection: Creating TransportSubscriberLink for topic [/rosout]
> connected to [callerid=[/rosout] address=[TCPROS connection to
> [127.0.1.1:34869 on socket 15]]]
>
> I figured the problem could be anything regarding my graphic card.
> I also installed a lot of updates (ubuntu update manager) and there were
> also some ros-updates included.
>
> btw: Iīm using ubuntu 10.04 lucid on a Samsung R580 Hawk with a NVIDIA
> GT330M.
>
> Has anyone else ever had such an error?
>
> Greetings,
> --
> Andreas Baldinger
> MatrNr.: 0929191
> Student Automatisierungstechnik
> TU Wien
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