Building a node

basic

asked 2015-01-12 11:13:27 -0500

dshimano
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updated 2015-01-13 10:29:03 -0500

Hello, very basic question. I just wrote some nodes to (hopefully) turn a servo with a joystick. I used catkin_create_pkg to make a package in the src folder. Then I used catkin_make to make the package. I made a directory in there, and pasted my two python codes. I used catkin_make again. These are the same steps as in the publisher tutorial. when I try to run my nodes, I get

: No such file or directory

Is there a step I'm missing. I know in the ros tutorials there is alot in the Creating a ROS msg and srv tutorial I didn't understand.

Thanks for the help.

The exact command I ran is

donni@donni-VirtualBox:~/catkin_ws/src/pi_servo/scripts$ rosrun pi_servo servo_listener.py
: No such file or directory

When I run grep

donni@donni-VirtualBox:~$ env|grep ROS
ROS_ROOT=/opt/ros/indigo/share/ros
ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=/opt/ros/indigo/share:/opt/ros/indigo/stacks
ROS_MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11311
ROSLISP_PACKAGE_DIRECTORIES=
ROS_DISTRO=indigo
ROS_ETC_DIR=/opt/ros/indigo/etc/ros

I don't think that looks wrong.

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It will help us if you edit your question to add the exact command you ran, and the result of env|grep ROS command to see what's going on.

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answered 2015-01-13 10:51:11 -0500

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updated 2015-01-13 10:52:26 -0500

ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=/opt/ros/indigo/share:/opt/ros/indigo/stacks

This indicates sourcing devel/setup.bash did not work as expected. ROS_PACKAGE_PATH must contain the path of your catkin workspace in order for your executables to be found by ROS.

I just added a passage to the create catkin workspace tutorial.

To make sure your workspace is properly overlayed by the setup script, make sure ROS_PACKAGE_PATH environment variable includes the directory you're in.

    $ echo $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH
    /home/youruser/catkin_ws/src:/opt/ros/indigo/share:/opt/ros/indigo/stacks

So in your case, I suggest to make sure you build and source properly. You can try again by removing the built artifact (see Cleaning up) and run catkin_make, and source the setup.