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Rviz fails to start

Hi,

I am not able to get Rviz to run

When I type in terminal:

rosrun rviz rviz

I get :

(rviz:9663): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_settings_set_long_property: assertion `GTK_SETTINGS (settings)' failed

(rviz:9663): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_settings_set_long_property: assertion `GTK_SETTINGS (settings)' failed

and nothing happen.

Any clues ??

EDIT:

@dgossow I think Gazebo is gtk based. I get the same gtk-critical stuff but it works fine.

I typed the command you wrotte, and it does not even want to halt when I press ctrl-c :

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Reading symbols from /opt/ros/groovy/lib/rviz/rviz...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) ^CQuit
(gdb) ^CQuit
(gdb) ^CQuit

EDIT2:

Here is the backtrance :

#0  0xb7fdd424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb6fc65f0 in poll () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#2  0xb576674b in g_poll () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3  0xb5757d00 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4  0xb5757e61 in g_main_context_iteration ()
   from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5  0xb5fb39a1 in QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
#6  0xb73899aa in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4
#7  0xb5f8028c in QEventLoop::processEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
#8  0xb5f80581 in QEventLoop::exec(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) ()
   from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
#9  0xb5f85cda in QCoreApplication::exec() ()
   from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
#10 0xb72d0fc4 in QApplication::exec() ()
   from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4
#11 0x08048da7 in main ()

Asked by amine23 on 2013-04-21 07:46:26 UTC

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does your computer have nvidia graphics card ?

Asked by prasanna.kumar on 2013-04-21 07:53:17 UTC

@prasanna.kumar no but ati and using proprietary driver

Asked by amine23 on 2013-04-21 20:38:00 UTC

Please run rviz in gdb (gdb /opt/ros/groovy/lib/rviz/rviz, on the gdb shell enter run), then ctrl-c it and provide a backtrace of where it is stuck (bt).

Asked by dgossow on 2013-04-22 05:36:13 UTC

What versions of ROS and Ubuntu are you using?

Asked by Eric Perko on 2013-04-22 06:20:39 UTC

@EricPerko groovy on quantal. everything is up to date.

Asked by amine23 on 2013-04-22 07:25:38 UTC

@dgossow when I run it from gdb without roscore it starts and tell me waiting for master. If I run roscore : sometimes it doesn't start, it give the same gtk-critical msgs and when I ctrl-c it I get : Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. 0xb4de777f in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.

Asked by amine23 on 2013-04-22 21:24:10 UTC

@dgossow and sometimes it starts but it looks not normal : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6960485/Screenshot%20from%202013-04-23%2008%3A34%3A38.png

Asked by amine23 on 2013-04-22 21:35:19 UTC

Disable desktop effects before running RViz. Also, you need to type run in gdb to actually start RViz.

Asked by dgossow on 2013-04-23 08:15:09 UTC

@dgossow I appreciate your help, but disabling desktop effect did not work either. Yes sure I had to type 'run' to get it to work but not normally as shown in the picture above. REALLY NEED IT!!!

Asked by amine23 on 2013-04-24 03:13:22 UTC

Please provide the backtrace from gdb. Type bt after you have Ctrl-C'd it.

Asked by dgossow on 2013-04-24 05:27:26 UTC

@dgossow I updated the question with the output of 'bt'.

Asked by amine23 on 2013-04-24 06:02:15 UTC

The backtrace doesn't give a lot of hints, unfortunately.

Asked by dgossow on 2013-04-24 11:05:39 UTC

Please post the output of glxinfo | grep OpenGL. Also, did you successfully run other ROS nodes on your system? It might be a network misconfiguration. It might also be that RViz is blocked trying to create the .rviz directory in your home folder. Do you have you home directory on a network drive?

Asked by dgossow on 2013-04-24 11:09:10 UTC

@dgossow the outuput: OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6700M Series OpenGL version string: 4.2.12002 Compatibility Profile Context 9.012 OpenGL shading language version string: 4.20 OpenGL extensions:

Asked by amine23 on 2013-04-24 21:19:40 UTC

@dgossow Other ROS nodes works well. The folder .rviz has been created in the home. Don't have a network drive. But as you have seen in the picture rviz did start from gdb but some buttons do not apear.!!

Asked by amine23 on 2013-04-24 21:23:29 UTC

Have you tried uninstalling the proprietary drivers?

Asked by dgossow on 2013-04-25 06:00:02 UTC

@dgossow no, but I will need it, and it was not easy to install it !

Asked by amine23 on 2013-04-25 06:02:32 UTC

Another thing you could try would be to rosrun rviz rviz --opengl 210

Asked by dgossow on 2013-04-25 06:04:36 UTC

@dgossow same.

Asked by amine23 on 2013-04-25 06:06:04 UTC

OK, so I tested the current RViz release on an ATI machine without any problems. Probably the drivers are broken for your GPU.

Asked by dgossow on 2013-04-25 08:20:25 UTC

Ok, so please post the full console output of these: gdb --ex run --args /opt/ros/groovy/lib/rviz/rviz -l and dpkg -s ros-groovy-rviz | grep Version in your question. Maybe that gives some clues, but I'm not very optimistic.

Asked by dgossow on 2013-04-25 08:21:14 UTC

@dgossow the output of the first command is here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6960485/cmd1 and the second is : Version: 1.9.28-0quantal-20130326-0349-+0000

Asked by amine23 on 2013-04-25 14:37:05 UTC

Well, nothing there that really looks RViz-related. All the Gtk errors are probably responsible for the missing GUI elements. If you wait for RViz 1.9.29 or compile it from source, the --opengl command line param will work and might do something for you.

Asked by dgossow on 2013-04-29 17:04:32 UTC

Ok, I'll see. Thanks a bunch @dgossow.

Asked by amine23 on 2013-04-29 21:23:29 UTC

@dgossow Well, I updated to Ver 1.9.29 and tried rosrun rviz rviz --opengl 210 with no sucess :/ fairly strange.

Asked by amine23 on 2013-05-09 16:15:28 UTC

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