[ros-users] rxconsole and rxloggerlevel cannot be killed

[Ken Conley]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 2:05 AM, K Chen <chk0105 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all:
>       I am new to ROS and still going through the tutorial, when I used
> rxconsole and rxloggerlevel and did not close them until after I launched
> the "mimic turtles", I used Ctrl C to end them respectively, but when I turn
> to rxgraph window to see available node graph, they are still there with
> error "Cannot communicate with ...". I tried rosnode kill and it displayed
> "killed", but when using rosnode list to see present nodes, they are still
> there, so does the rxgraph windows shows.

It sounds like they were killed, but didn't die cleanly. There
shouldn't be any effect on your system other than they show up in
rxgraph.

>       So I am asking whether this is normal that they cannot be killed, and
> this won't cause anything unexpected ?

This sounds like a bug in rxconsole and rxloggerlevel.  They should
die cleanly on Ctrl-C.

 - Ken