It has nothing to do with rviz, or even using OpenGL, just being linked
against it.  For example, this exhibits the same crash:


roscd roscpp_tutorials
LD_PRELOAD=libGL.so bin/listener


roscd roscpp_tutorials
bin/talker
<CTRL-C>


Josh

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Patrick Bouffard <bouffard@eecs.berkeley.edu
> wrote:

> I think I've been having this problem too, and I'm glad to hear that
> upgrading drivers seems to solve it. But I'm also still puzzled how
> killing another process causes rviz to crash simply because it uses
> opengl. I would have thought that the graphics and topic subscription
> parts of rviz would be fairly independent. What is it about the other
> process crashing, whose only connection (AFAIK) with rviz is through a
> ROS topic, that triggers the bug in the nvidia driver?
>
> Cheers,
> Pat
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Josh Faust <jfaust@willowgarage.com>
> wrote:
> > rviz uses opengl/ogre
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Ugo Cupcic <ugo@shadowrobot.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Matei,
> >>
> >> Ok, I'll try upgrading my drivers then.
> >>
> >> Just as a remark, concerning my dependencies, I don't see what could be
> >> using OpenGl / ogre.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Ugo
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Matei Ciocarlie <matei@willowgarage.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Ugo,
> >>>
> >>> It's almost certainly the driver problem. If you link against the
> >>> nvidia driver (which you are if anybody in your dependency list is
> >>> using OpenGl or ogre) you will get these crashes. The only solution
> >>> we've found is to upgrade the driver; 260.19.21 seems to fix the
> >>> problem.
> >>>
> >>> Matei
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Ugo Cupcic <ugo@shadowrobot.com>
> wrote:
> >>> > Hi,
> >>> >
> >>> > I think I'm having the problem described on this ticket:
> >>> > https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/4463
> >>> >
> >>> > When I kill a node which is not related to rviz at all, rviz
> segfaults.
> >>> >
> >>> > I did a backtrace on rviz (it doesn't crash in gdb) and got this:
> >>> >
> >>> > Core was generated by
> >>> > `/opt/ros/unstable/stacks/visualization/rviz/bin/rviz'.
> >>> > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> >>> > #0  0x00007fae809987ef in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1
> >>> > (gdb) backtrace
> >>> > #0  0x00007fae809987ef in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1
> >>> > #1  0x00007fae80998be9 in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1
> >>> > #2  0x00007fae8099d34b in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1
> >>> > #3  0x00007fae8099d8fc in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1
> >>> > #4  0x00007fae8b76a971 in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
> >>> > #5  0x00007fae8385e92d in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
> >>> > #6  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> >>> >
> >>> > I'm displaying 2 robot_model in rviz, and the following nodes are
> >>> > running:
> >>> >> rosnode list
> >>> > /fixed_frame_pos_pub_arm              > fixed_frame_pub
> >>> > /fixed_frame_target_pub_arm           > fixed_frame_pub
> >>> > /link_hand_arm_pos                        > fixed_frame_pub
> >>> > /link_hand_arm_target                     > fixed_frame_pub
> >>> > /robot_state_publisher_pos_arm       > robot_state_pub
> >>> > /robot_state_publisher_target_arm    > robot_state_pub
> >>> > /rosout
> >>> > /rviz_1296830902390721972
> >>> > /shadowarm                                    > my own node,
> publishing
> >>> > joint_states
> >>> > /shadowhand                                  > my own node,
> publishing
> >>> > joint_states
> >>> > /sr_diagnostic_aggregator                > diagnostic aggregator
> >>> > /srh_robot_state_publisher_pos        > robot_state_pub
> >>> > /srh_robot_state_publisher_target     > robot_state_pub
> >>> >
> >>> > My shadowarm and shadowhand nodes have the following dependencies in
> >>> > their
> >>> > manifest.xml (I remember that a while ago I had the same problem and
> >>> > that I
> >>> > solved it by removing the dependencies to rviz / ...) :
> >>> >   <depend package="roslib"/>
> >>> >   <depend package="roscpp"/>
> >>> >   <depend package="rospy"/>
> >>> >   <depend package="std_msgs"/>
> >>> >   <depend package="sensor_msgs"/>
> >>> >   <depend package="sr_robot_msgs"/>
> >>> >   <depend package="diagnostic_msgs"/>
> >>> >   <depend package="dynamic_reconfigure"/>
> >>> >
> >>> > I'm running ubuntu 10.10 with the 260.19.06 nvidia driver (but with 2
> >>> > nvidia
> >>> > 9500 cards).
> >>> >
> >>> > Any ideas?
> >>> >
> >>> > Cheers,
> >>> >
> >>> > Ugo
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > --
> >>> > Ugo Cupcic | Shadow Robot Company | ugo@shadowrobot.com
> >>> > Software Engineer | 251 Liverpool Road |
> >>> > need a Hand? | London N1 1LX | +44 20 7700 2487
> >>> > http://www.shadowrobot.com/hand/ @shadowrobot
> >>> >
> >>> >
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> >>> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
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> >>> Research Scientist
> >>> Willow Garage Inc.
> >>> 650-475-9780
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> >> Software Engineer | 251 Liverpool Road |
> >> need a Hand? | London N1 1LX | +44 20 7700 2487
> >> http://www.shadowrobot.com/hand/ @shadowrobot
> >>
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