roscore doesn't start normally anymore?

asked 2016-01-11 05:01:43 -0500

Sietse
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Hello all,

since a week or so, starting roscore doesn't work normally om my machine. The program hangs most of the time, there is nothing more than the command I entered. It only starts if I Ctrl-C the hanging roscore, then it suddenly starts. Very strange.

If I, e.g., start rviz it has the same behaviour (often), it only really starts when I ctrl-C the hanging program.

There were no ros-updates in the last month I think. I am running ubuntu 14.04 and indigo, all standard.

What can we wrong here? Thanks in advance,

Sietse

answered 2016-01-11 05:24:47 -0500

gvdhoorn
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It only starts if I Ctrl-C the hanging roscore, then it suddenly starts.

It normally takes care of this by itself, but sometimes ROS needs a little help: run a rosclean check and see if it also hangs (or takes a very long time to complete). That is the program that is run first by roscore: it keeps tabs on the nr of log files (and their total size). On a regular HDD (so not an SSD), that can take quite some time.

If rosclean check also 'hangs', you can either run rosclean purge, or manually rm ~/.ros/log/*.log. In both cases make sure you have nothing there you'd like to keep.

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rosclean check check returns immediately, there was 109MB logging. After rosclean purge nothing is changed, so that isn't the problem... Any other possibility?

Sietse ( 2016-01-11 06:25:02 -0500 )edit

Make sure you don't have any incorrect info in your /etc/hosts, or a wrong ROS_IP / ROS_HOSTNAME in your .bashrc. Especially on university / corporate networks (where addressing may change without notice) that sometimes leads to strange (and hard to diagnose) issues.