[ros-users] turtlesim problem

[Melonee Wise]

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 <westhierry at gmail.com> 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 <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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