a ticket has been file for this bug here: https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3942 On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Wes Thierry wrote: > thanks for the tip! I'll try it later tonight after work, and post the > results. > > wes > > > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Jamuraa wrote: > >> I was looking into this earlier today, because I got confused. It >> seems that fuerte turtlesim is shipping without any turtle images, >> which defines the size of a meter in the initial TurtleFrame. Which >> means that the initial turtle is placed somewhere divided by zero >> (hence the infinite) >> >> Turtlesim looks for the images in >> /opt/ros/fuerte/share/turtlesim/images but that directory isn't even >> there. I wasn't sure where to report this bug (I couldn't find a bug >> tracker for ros_tutorials with a quick look on the wiki page), and not >> sure if it was reproducible with the Ubuntu install because I >> installed from source. >> >> I would imagine that if you copy the images directory from the source >> tree (on my system, ros-underlay/ros_tutorials/turtlesim/images) into >> /opt/ros/fuerte/share/turtlesim it will start working again. >> >> Michael Janssen --- Jamuraa --- jamuraa@base0.net >> >> >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Wes Thierry >> wrote: >> > I just setup the ros environment, trying to walk through the >> tutorials. I >> > get to running turtlesim, but the turtle is not visible anywhere in the >> blue >> > window. any help would be great. here is the output I get: >> > >> > wes@wes-G73Jh:~/ros_workspace$ rosrun turtlesim turtlesim_node >> > [ INFO] [1335882178.594059636]: Starting turtlesim with node name >> /turtlesim >> > [ INFO] [1335882178.605867456]: Spawning turtle [turtle1] at x=[inf], >> > y=[inf], theta=[0.000000] >> > >> > thanks >> > wes >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > ros-users mailing list >> > ros-users@code.ros.org >> > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > -- Senior Engineer Intern Program Director Willow Garage 68 Willow Rd. Menlo Park, Ca 94025