[ros-users] cturtle's Gazebo Crashing with Ogre error

[Patrick Beeson]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes indeed.  If I run as root, it succeeds.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:45 PM, William Woodall <wjwwood at 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 at auburn.edu
>> wjwwood at gmail.com
>> 256-345-9938
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Patrick Beeson <beeson.p at 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 at 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 at auburn.edu
>>> > wjwwood at gmail.com
>>> > 256-345-9938
>>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:13 PM, John Hsu <johnhsu at 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 at 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 at auburn.edu
>>> >>> wjwwood at gmail.com
>>> >>> 256-345-9938
>>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> >>>
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