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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I would like to see if you can reproduce this result.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br clear="all">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>William Woodall<br>Graduate Software Engineering<br>
Auburn University<br>
<a href="mailto:w@auburn.edu">w@auburn.edu</a><br><a href="mailto:wjwwood@gmail.com">wjwwood@gmail.com</a><br>256-345-9938<br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Patrick Beeson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beeson.p@gmail.com">beeson.p@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I'm seeing this as well, and I am running Lucid with an NVIDIA card<br>
and the most current NVIDIA driver. glxinfo and glxgears works fine,<br>
so I'm unsure why OGRE is having problems. I may try compiling the<br>
source instead of installing pre-compiled binaries using apt.<br>
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On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, William Woodall <<a href="mailto:wjwwood@gmail.com">wjwwood@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I figured this might be the problem, however, parallels has some form of 3D<br>
> acceleration, and I know this because I have rviz and compiz (visual<br>
> effects) working in it. Also, the boxturtle build of gazebo works just fine<br>
> in my virtual machine, which leads me to believe it might be a bug or change<br>
> in requirements from the previous version that is causing the error. I will<br>
> attempt to find a computer with a better video card and Ubuntu with which to<br>
> test this theory, but I may not have one at my disposal.<br>
> Does anyone know if the error I posted is specifically related to<br>
> insufficient graphics capabilities?<br>
> Thanks for your help so far,<br>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
> William Woodall<br>
> Graduate Software Engineering<br>
> Auburn University<br>
> <a href="mailto:w@auburn.edu">w@auburn.edu</a><br>
> <a href="mailto:wjwwood@gmail.com">wjwwood@gmail.com</a><br>
> 256-345-9938<br>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:13 PM, John Hsu <<a href="mailto:johnhsu@willowgarage.com">johnhsu@willowgarage.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> What graphics card and driver do you have?<br>
>><br>
>> Gazebo/Ogre needs hardware acceleration, from my experience parallel's<br>
>> will not work. Older ATI drivers also have incompatible OpenGL<br>
>> implementations. Most NVIDIA cards seems to run fine.<br>
>> Please see<br>
>> <a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/simulator_gazebo/SystemRequirements" target="_blank">http://www.ros.org/wiki/simulator_gazebo/SystemRequirements</a><br>
>> for list of tested cards and drivers.<br>
>><br>
>> John<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:40 PM, William Woodall <<a href="mailto:wjwwood@gmail.com">wjwwood@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> I am trying to use the cturtle binaries on ubuntu to experiment with<br>
>>> gazebo's new features. When I run `roslaunch gazebo_worlds<br>
>>> empty_world.launch` I get this error:<br>
>>> <a href="http://gist.github.com/430689" target="_blank">http://gist.github.com/430689</a><br>
>>> In trying to debug this we have tried to run this on two different<br>
>>> macbook pros running ubuntu lucid in parallels and on a laptop running lucid<br>
>>> that has an ati x1300 moble all with the same result.<br>
>>> Any ideas would be appreciated.<br>
>>> Thanks,<br>
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
>>> William Woodall<br>
>>> Graduate Software Engineering<br>
>>> Auburn University<br>
>>> <a href="mailto:w@auburn.edu">w@auburn.edu</a><br>
>>> <a href="mailto:wjwwood@gmail.com">wjwwood@gmail.com</a><br>
>>> 256-345-9938<br>
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
>>><br>
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