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Problem with roslaunch on a local machine

asked 2014-09-17 07:39:28 -0500

zeinab
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Hi, I have a robot which is my ros_master and my local machine which is able to to list the nodes and topics and also do rosrun. I have ROS_MASTER_URI, ROS_HOSTNAME and ROS_IP correctly set on both machines. However when I want to start a package on my local machine using roslaunch ( in my case I am trying to launch gmapping) I have problems. My local machine tries to run roscore locally and it gives me errors.

Thanks in advance for helping me out.

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answered 2014-09-18 07:09:50 -0500

zeinab
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updated 2014-09-18 07:10:20 -0500

Apparently I had set the ROS_HOSTNAME to the name of my ros_master instead of the name of my local machine. So for this to work we need to set the ROS_HOSTNAME to the name of the local machine ( in /etc/hosts) or its IP, set the ROS_IP to the ip of the local machine and ROS_MASTER_URI to the ip of the master.

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