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Systemd roslaunch

asked 2016-10-05 20:47:36 -0500

Andre_Preller_3000 gravatar image

updated 2016-10-05 20:49:55 -0500

I've recently migrated my ROS project to Ubuntu 16.04LTS and ROS kinetic since I was having stability issues with Ubuntu 14.04LTS. Unfortunately this means I can't use robot upstart anymore to run my roslaunch file at startup (afaik).

I've made an attempt at using systemd (based on this guide) to run a bash script which runs roslaunch at startup but I'm stuck trying to get everything to work.

my systemd file: (chmod 664)

[Unit]

Description=start runslam

After=mysql.service

[Service]

ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/runslam.sh

KillMode=process

[Install]

WantedBy=default.target

my bash script: (chmod +x)

#!/bin/bash

roslaunch runslam slam.launch

Just running the bash script from the terminal starts up roscore and my project runs fine but when running:

$ sudo systemctl start runslam.service

$ systemctl status runslam.service

I get the following output:

● runslam.service - start runslam
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/runslam.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2016-10-06 11:36:29 AEST; 7s ago Process: 3746 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/runslam.sh (code=exited, status=127) Main PID: 3746 (code=exited, status=127)

Oct 06 11:36:29 ausdroid-sbc-flt1 systemd[1]: Started start runslam.

Oct 06 11:36:29 ausdroid-sbc-flt1 runslam.sh[3746]: /usr/local/bin/runslam.sh: line 3: roslaunch: command not found

Oct 06 11:36:29 ausdroid-sbc-flt1 systemd[1]: runslam.service: Main process exited,> code=exited, status=127/n/a

Oct 06 11:36:29 ausdroid-sbc-flt1 systemd[1]: runslam.service: Unit entered failed state.

Oct 06 11:36:29 ausdroid-sbc-flt1 systemd[1]: runslam.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

I think "roslaunch: command not found" means that the ROS environment needs to be somehow specified in the systemd file does anyone know how to do this? Thanks.

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Note it may be advisable to use KillSignal=2 as roslaunch seems to respond to SIGINT instead of the default SIGTERM

Rufus gravatar image Rufus  ( 2020-03-19 04:46:50 -0500 )edit

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answered 2016-10-06 00:37:35 -0500

Mani gravatar image

updated 2016-10-06 00:39:05 -0500

I have not used systemd myself for this task, but I've used the following method in a fairly similar situation to wrap roslaunch.

Change /usr/local/bin/runslam.sh to:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
bash -c "source /path/to/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash && roslaunch runslam slam.launch"
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Brilliant! Thankyou Mani that did it :)

And just for the sake of completeness, since posting I made the following changes to the systemd file:

  • "After=network.target"

*got rid of the KillMode line

*Added "Restart=on-abort" under [Unit]

Andre_Preller_3000 gravatar image Andre_Preller_3000  ( 2016-10-06 21:44:23 -0500 )edit
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You are welcome. I am glad it worked. One thing you can do is to post your full solution online (i.e. as a Github gist) and provide a link in your question for future reference.

Mani gravatar image Mani  ( 2016-10-06 21:58:31 -0500 )edit

You sir are a boss. Thanks!

calvertdw gravatar image calvertdw  ( 2017-04-05 18:54:52 -0500 )edit
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answered 2019-07-23 01:48:04 -0500

Floris gravatar image

updated 2019-07-24 01:13:06 -0500

FYI: (code=exited, status=127) means that a command is not recognized. This is because ROS hasn't been sourced when the service is starting up. As @Mani mentioned: just add the source /path/to/ros/setup.bash to you script file so it recognizes the ros commands you use.

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