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Assuming your new urdf file does indeed define the frames, you need to reload the robot_description parameter and relaunch the robot_state_publisher in order for any changes you've made to the urdf to take effect. On the Jackal you could do this with

rosnode kill robot_state_publisher && roslaunch jackal_description description.launch

Alternatively you could just restart ROS or the robot itself.