ROS Kinetic Installation stuck on std_msgs

I'm trying to install ROS kinetic onto my raspberry pi 3b+. It's running raspbian jessie. But it gets stuck when processing catkin package stdmsgs. It'll get to `[100%] Built target stdmsgsgeneratemessages_cpp` and just stay there for hours. I've already tried increasing the swap space but that didn't help. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Asked by Gregg on 2018-09-17 09:29:15 UTC

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Have you tried to see whether catkin_make -j1 succeeds? If so, it could be a resource problem.

(I'm assuming you're using catkin_make here, not catkin_tools)

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2018-09-17 10:00:50 UTC

Forgive me, I'm very new at this so how could I tell if catkin_make -j1 succeeds?

Asked by Gregg on 2018-09-17 10:11:15 UTC

If it doesn't hang your build?

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2018-09-17 10:12:52 UTC

I'm using the tutorial here: http://wiki.ros.org/ROSberryPi/Installing%20ROS%20Kinetic%20on%20the%20Raspberry%20Pi

step 3.3 is where it's getting stuck at, what step would I check for catkin_make -j1?

Asked by Gregg on 2018-09-17 10:15:59 UTC

You're using catkin_make_isolated, so just adjust the command to use -j1 instead of the -j4 that is shown in that tutorial.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2018-09-17 10:23:33 UTC

I tried that now, it seems to have gotten stuck at [ 60%] Generating EusLisp manifest code for std_msgs The strange thing is that the cpu usage has fallen to zero so the raspberry pi doesn't seem to be doing anything

Asked by Gregg on 2018-09-17 11:13:48 UTC

Well it was worth a shot. I'm not sure what the issue is now. Perhaps you could try strace.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2018-09-17 12:31:19 UTC

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I know this is going to be the answer no one want to use, but in my case, this solve my problem (so please, no hate).

I do not know if my problem is the same as yours (but have similar syntoms) in my case, I am using gentoo (which I know the support is experimental), I tried with kinetic and melodic and both cases had same problem catkin_make -j1 was getting stuck at Generating EusLisp manifest and this just happened with packages that have to compile msgs

since I don't really care about having ROS-EusLisp compatibility, I modified /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/geneus/gen_eus.py and commented the line geneus.geneus_main.genmain(sys.argv, 'gen_eus.py')

After that everything worked fine.

Asked by fcolecumberri on 2019-06-08 19:26:48 UTC

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If you're going to disable message generation for (a) certain language, then I would recommend you do it using the official support for that. Refer to #q213511.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2019-06-09 02:17:06 UTC