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To me it looks like you are trying to call publish on an uninitialized publisher object. Make sure that you initialize it by calling NodeHandle::advertise before you are trying to publish anything. Btw., you can check if a publisher is valid by:

if( !publisher ) {
  ROS_WARN("Publisher invalid!");
}

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