If I encounter this again, I'll try this solution. But as of now, after
running as root, and now even after reboot, it simply works. Maybe
> ticketed on trac <https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/4165>, thanks
> for the reports. I can't reproduce the error at the moment, but if
> someone can, can you please try to clear out the shared memory segments
> as described here
> <http://www.ros.org/wiki/simulator_gazebo/Troubleshooting#Error:_failed_to_allocate_semaphore.2C_permission_denied.>
> first and see if it helps?
> thanks,
> John
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Patrick Beeson <beeson.p@gmail.com
> <mailto:beeson.p@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Strange. After running as root, and seeing this work, I got back to
> my normal user account, and it now works. Don't know if that'll be
> the case after a reboot, but this is strange.
>
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Patrick Beeson <beeson.p@gmail.com
> <mailto:beeson.p@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Yes indeed. If I run as root, it succeeds.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:45 PM, William Woodall
> <wjwwood@gmail.com <mailto:wjwwood@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> My coworker and I have discovered that it is a permissions
> problem, running
> >> roslaunch gazebo_worlds empty_world.launch as root allows gazebo
> to run
> >> normally.
> >> We are still looking into why that is, but I can only guess that
> it is
> >> because the location of the binaries are not writable by normal
> users.
> >> I would like to see if you can reproduce this result.
> >> Thanks,
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> William Woodall
> >> Graduate Software Engineering
> >> Auburn University
> >> w@auburn.edu <mailto:w@auburn.edu>
> >> wjwwood@gmail.com <mailto:wjwwood@gmail.com>
> >> 256-345-9938
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Patrick Beeson
> <beeson.p@gmail.com <mailto:beeson.p@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm seeing this as well, and I am running Lucid with an NVIDIA card
> >>> and the most current NVIDIA driver. glxinfo and glxgears works
> fine,
> >>> so I'm unsure why OGRE is having problems. I may try compiling the
> >>> source instead of installing pre-compiled binaries using apt.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, William Woodall
> <wjwwood@gmail.com <mailto:wjwwood@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>> > I figured this might be the problem, however, parallels has
> some form of
> >>> > 3D
> >>> > acceleration, and I know this because I have rviz and compiz
> (visual
> >>> > effects) working in it. Also, the boxturtle build of gazebo
> works just
> >>> > fine
> >>> > in my virtual machine, which leads me to believe it might be
> a bug or
> >>> > change
> >>> > in requirements from the previous version that is causing the
> error. I
> >>> > will
> >>> > attempt to find a computer with a better video card and
> Ubuntu with
> >>> > which to
> >>> > test this theory, but I may not have one at my disposal.
> >>> > Does anyone know if the error I posted is specifically related to
> >>> > insufficient graphics capabilities?
> >>> > Thanks for your help so far,
> >>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>> > William Woodall
> >>> > Graduate Software Engineering
> >>> > Auburn University
> >>> > w@auburn.edu <mailto:w@auburn.edu>
> >>> > wjwwood@gmail.com <mailto:wjwwood@gmail.com>
> >>> > 256-345-9938
> >>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:13 PM, John Hsu
> <johnhsu@willowgarage.com <mailto:johnhsu@willowgarage.com>>
> >>> > wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Hi,
> >>> >>
> >>> >> What graphics card and driver do you have?
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Gazebo/Ogre needs hardware acceleration, from my experience
> parallel's
> >>> >> will not work. Older ATI drivers also have incompatible OpenGL
> >>> >> implementations. Most NVIDIA cards seems to run fine.
> >>> >> Please see
> >>> >> http://www.ros.org/wiki/simulator_gazebo/SystemRequirements
> >>> >> for list of tested cards and drivers.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> John
> >>> >>
> >>> >> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:40 PM, William Woodall
> <wjwwood@gmail.com <mailto:wjwwood@gmail.com>>
> >>> >> wrote:
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> I am trying to use the cturtle binaries on ubuntu to
> experiment with
> >>> >>> gazebo's new features. When I run `roslaunch gazebo_worlds
> >>> >>> empty_world.launch` I get this error:
> >>> >>> http://gist.github.com/430689
> >>> >>> In trying to debug this we have tried to run this on two
> different
> >>> >>> macbook pros running ubuntu lucid in parallels and on a
> laptop running
> >>> >>> lucid
> >>> >>> that has an ati x1300 moble all with the same result.
> >>> >>> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> >>> >>> Thanks,
> >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>> >>> William Woodall
> >>> >>> Graduate Software Engineering
> >>> >>> Auburn University
> >>> >>> w@auburn.edu <mailto:w@auburn.edu>
> >>> >>> wjwwood@gmail.com <mailto:wjwwood@gmail.com>
> >>> >>> 256-345-9938
> >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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