turtlebot sim crashes on subscribing to any topic

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First I run the turtlebot run launch file from the terminal:

    $ roslaunch turtlebot_gazebo turtlebot_world.launch

Then in a new terminal:

     $ rostopic echo /scan

As soon as I subscribe to the /scan topic i get the following error:

gzserver: /build/ogre-1.9-mqY1wq/ogre-1.9-1.9.0+dfsg1/OgreMain/src/OgreRenderSystem.cpp:546: virtual void Ogre::RenderSystem::setDepthBufferFor(Ogre::RenderTarget*): Assertion `bAttached && "A new DepthBuffer for a RenderTarget was created, but after creation" "it says it's incompatible with that RT"' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

[gazebo-1] process has died [pid 21624, exit code 134, cmd /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/gazebo_ros/gzserver -e ode /opt/ros/kinetic/share/turtlebot_gazebo/worlds/playground.world __name:=gazebo __log:=/home/pranav/.ros/log/f18cc0fc-ccc2-11e7-9a30-9cb6d0e527e7/gazebo-1.log].

log file: /home/pranav/.ros/log/f18cc0fc-ccc2-11e7-9a30-9cb6d0e527e7/gazebo-1*.log