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How are you publishing the /scan topic?

It has to have the frame_id /base_scan set. Also it should have a current timestamp (i.e. corresponding to those in the rviz machine), this might be a problem with multiple computers.

Do you see a scan, if you set the fixed_frame in rviz to the frame_id of the scan?

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