gazebo crashes immediately using roslaunch after installing gazebo ros packages

asked 2013-08-13 03:03:00 -0600

Zahra
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updated 2016-07-23 17:46:34 -0600

yah130s

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Hello,

after installing everything properly I am following the tutorials to test the tools (using groovy, gazebo 1.9 and gazebo_ros_pkgs). I have a problem using roslaunch to start gazebo following this tutorial

http://gazebosim.org/wiki/Tutorials/1...

when I want to start with command roslaunch gazebo_ros willowgarage_world.launch gazebo crashes after one sec and I get this error:

[gazebo_gui-3] process has died [pid 15649, exit code 139, cmd /home/usr/catkin_ws/src/gazebo_ros_pkgs/gazebo_ros/scripts/gzclient __name:=gazebo_gui __log:=/home/shahed/.ros/log/8981441a-03ea-11e3-8d2b-0017c4a8146b/gazebo_gui-3.log].
log file: /home/usr/.ros/log/8981441a-03ea-11e3-8d2b-0017c4a8146b/gazebo_gui-3*.log

this problem happens with all world files( mud_world.launch, shapes_world.launch, rubble_world.launch), except the empty and willowgarage_world, both of them can be started using roslaunch tool but not always from the first attempt. Mostly from the second try.

I also followed “Creating a Custom World File” in the same tutorial and still the same problem occurred.

Any help plz!

Thanks in advance.

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answered 2013-08-23 02:32:46 -0600

Zahra
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Hello

I followed this approach :

first, start with . ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash . Then killall gzserver even if there is no process running and then roslaunch package[name] launch file[name].

Most of the time it works and if it doesnt just wait about 3 minutes before starting again , I still dont know why this is happening but after doing the above steps I am able to run my simulation with roslaunch from first or second attempt.

Hope it is helpful!

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Hi, killall gzserver worked for me. Thank you!

Shehzi ( 2013-09-22 11:24:22 -0600 )edit

Great, if the problem is constant you can try this way, it worked better for me. http://answers.gazebosim.org/question/4252/gazebo_gui-3-error-when-starting-gazebo-with/

Zahra ( 2013-09-22 13:20:25 -0600 )edit

I was having a similar problem, but with "roslaunch turtlebot3_gazebo turtlebot3_empty_world.launch". Your solution worked for me! Thanks, so much!

mkelly66 ( 2019-07-24 03:59:34 -0600 )edit

This did not work for me :(

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answered 2016-02-16 11:21:33 -0600

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The problem is that roslaunch secretly adds two hidden arguments when starting up a node's executable: _name and _log. If you are calling an executable through roslaunch that is not ROS interoperable, then that executable may fail at startup because it doesn't know how to handle the _name and _log arguments. This is the case here, since roslaunch is actually calling a script file (rungazebo), which is a script that executes the "gazebo" command while passing in all arguments from roslaunch. Gazebo doesn't know how to handle the _name and _log arguments so it dies.

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Minor correction; `__name` and `__log`, I guess double underscore instead of single.

yah130s ( 2016-07-23 17:41:11 -0600 )edit

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Your explanation sounds like that Gazebo processes should always die when they are called from `roslaunch`? There are number of successful .launch files out there so I think that's not the case.

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answered 2017-08-04 12:41:10 -0600

amkros
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This approach has worked for me after multiple installs and uninstalls finally. If you are using VirtualBox for running ubuntu just disable 3D acceleration from settings for your version. This solved the problem gazebo along with rViz which were crashing (un)expectedly. Although it did make the system slow. You can't have both at once. Hope this helps!!

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Thanks. it worked for me

AliZ-ee ( 2019-07-19 04:27:03 -0600 )edit

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answered 2013-08-22 19:40:09 -0600

tania
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Hey Zahra, even i am facing a similar issue trying to start gazebo using the command:

roslaunch atlasutils vrctask_1.launch . Following error is displayed :

[gazebo-2] process has died [pid 2671, exit code 127, cmd /usr/local/share/drcsim-2.7/ros/atlasutils/scripts/rungazebo vrctask1.world -q -r --recordencoding=zlib --recordpath=/tmp/vrctask1 _name:=gazebo _log:=/home/tania/.ros/log/5704913c-0b8c-11e3-ba22-6c8814fca2c8/gazebo-2.log]. log file: /home/tania/.ros/log/5704913c-0b8c-11e3-ba22-6c8814fca2c8/gazebo-2*.log

Can you please tell me how you fixed it?

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hey, the error I was getting related to gui and its anser in this question: http://answers.gazebosim.org/question/4252/gazebo_gui-3-error-when-starting-gazebo-with/

Zahra ( 2013-09-22 13:13:22 -0600 )edit

your error [gazebo-2] is related to urdf or sdf file and you need to find out I guess by looking in the log file. I got that kind of errors couple of times and it was related to my sdf file when I spawned it from launch file.

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answered 2020-11-09 20:57:02 -0600

ahmadF
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hi, I have exactly the same problem but these approaches does not work for me. Do you have any solution plz?

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answered 2019-07-24 08:04:44 -0600

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Its because your gazebo server is running at the background. Check by entering top command in terminal you will find there the process running gzserver and gzclient and note down their PID 1st column . You can turn it off by kill -9 PID. PID of gzserver and gzclient. e.g. kill -9 8457. Now try launching gazebo, it will work.

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For me there is nothing in top related to gazebo. And I still have the same problem after doing killall gzserver

desmond13 ( 2020-07-08 07:39:55 -0600 )edit

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