[ros-users] turtlesim problem

Wes Thierry westhierry at gmail.com
Tue May 1 16:43:49 UTC 2012


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 <jamuraa at base0.net> 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 at base0.net
>
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Wes Thierry <westhierry at gmail.com> 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 at 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
> >
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