I also had an issue launching empty world, although I don’t remember what was the actual error message. It turned to be version inconsistency between Gazebo and rest of the ROS. I updated my ROS installation and I could launch the empty world simulator.

But Gazebo is still sometimes crashes for me, just like in Sarah’s case. I’m running Ubuntu 9.10.

Thanks,

Alex

From: ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org [mailto:ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Osentoski
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 1:10 PM
To: ros-users@code.ros.org
Subject: Re: [ros-users] Gazebo crashing on start up

Thanks for the tip. Gazebo starts up.  However, it still crashes after being up for 10-15 minutes and spits up the error message: 

gazebo-2] process has died [pid 12540, exit code -11].

log files: /home/sosentos/.ros/log/18b1012e-52e7-11df-853d-00241dc18d36/gazebo-2*.log

Unfortunately there is nothing in the .log file other than a line about successful initialization,

Sarah