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I was bitten by this issue as well.

Make sure LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set. This is important, even if the librmw_fastrtps_cpp.so file exists in /usr/lib, since the RMW code will explicitly look for LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

See also this interesting issue: https://github.com/ros2/rcpputils/issues/40

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