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See the output of rviz's console.

If it says something like, Goal is not in the map frame so it will be ignored, there is your answer.

Change fixed frame to map and then try. It should work. It doesn't work from anything other than the map frame as fixed frame (hence the frame for the move_base_simple/goal).

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