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rviz 1.11.3 is for Indigo, Indigo requires ogre 1.8 or 1.9. You have ogre 1.7 installed and it cannot process the mesh files.

An alternative is to get the 1.7 version of the mesh files for rviz by reverting this commit:

https://github.com/ros-visualization/rviz/commit/1aad3d89feba77d7a356888436ed83bc701a97f6

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