rviz crash on macOS Sierra

asked 2016-12-22 10:39:32 -0500

ZOU Lu
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updated 2016-12-30 05:13:17 -0500

gvdhoorn
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Hi,

After lots of tweaks, I've finally made it to setup ROS Kinetic on my MacBook Air, with mac OS Sierra. Everything works fine except rviz. It crashes on startup. I tried with this command:

rosrun rviz rviz -l

And the output is:

[ INFO] [1482424510.671672000]: rviz version 1.12.4
[ INFO] [1482424510.671803000]: compiled against Qt version 5.7.0
[ INFO] [1482424510.671830000]: compiled against OGRE version 1.7.4 (Cthugha)
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
[ INFO] [1482424511.705687000]: Creating resource group General
[ INFO] [1482424511.705788000]: Creating resource group Internal
[ INFO] [1482424511.705827000]: Creating resource group Autodetect
[ INFO] [1482424511.705940000]: SceneManagerFactory for type 'DefaultSceneManager' registered.
[ INFO] [1482424511.706240000]: Registering ResourceManager for type Material
[ INFO] [1482424511.706289000]: Registering ResourceManager for type Mesh
[ INFO] [1482424511.706321000]: Registering ResourceManager for type Skeleton
[ INFO] [1482424511.706382000]: MovableObjectFactory for type 'ParticleSystem' registered.
[ INFO] [1482424511.706445000]: OverlayElementFactory for type Panel registered.
[ INFO] [1482424511.706476000]: OverlayElementFactory for type BorderPanel registered.
[ INFO] [1482424511.706510000]: OverlayElementFactory for type TextArea registered.
[ INFO] [1482424511.706549000]: Registering ResourceManager for type Font
[ INFO] [1482424511.706587000]: ArchiveFactory for archive type FileSystem registered.
[ INFO] [1482424511.706612000]: ArchiveFactory for archive type Zip registered.
[ INFO] [1482424511.706637000]: DDS codec registering
[ INFO] [1482424511.706691000]: FreeImage version: 3.17.0
[ INFO] [1482424511.706724000]: This program uses FreeImage, a free, open source image library supporting all common bitmap formats. See http://freeimage.sourceforge.net for details
[ INFO] [1482424511.706908000]: Supported formats: bmp,ico,jpg,jif,jpeg,jpe,jng,koa,iff,lbm,mng,pbm,pbm,pcd,pcx,pgm,pgm,png,ppm,ppm,ras,tga,targa,tif,tiff,wap,wbmp,wbm,psd,cut,xbm,xpm,gif,hdr,g3,sgi,rgb,rgba,bw,exr,j2k,j2c,jp2,pfm,pct,pict,pic,3fr,arw,bay,bmq,cap,cine,cr2,crw,cs1,dc2,dcr,drf,dsc,dng,erf,fff,ia,iiq,k25,kc2,kdc,mdc,mef,mos,mrw,nef,nrw,orf,pef,ptx,pxn,qtk,raf,raw,rdc,rw2,rwl,rwz,sr2,srf,srw,sti,x3f,webp,jxr,wdp,hdp
[ INFO] [1482424511.706943000]: Registering ResourceManager for type HighLevelGpuProgram
[ INFO] [1482424511.707169000]: Registering ResourceManager for type Compositor
[ INFO] [1482424511.707464000]: MovableObjectFactory for type 'Entity' registered.
[ INFO] [1482424511.707513000]: MovableObjectFactory for type 'Light' registered.
[ INFO] [1482424511.707546000]: MovableObjectFactory for type 'BillboardSet' registered.
[ INFO] [1482424511.707575000]: MovableObjectFactory for type 'ManualObject' registered.
[ INFO] [1482424511.707607000]: MovableObjectFactory for type 'BillboardChain' registered.
[ INFO] [1482424511.707636000]: MovableObjectFactory for type 'RibbonTrail' registered.
[ INFO] [1482424511.707859000]: *-*-* OGRE Initialising
[ INFO] [1482424511.707901000]: *-*-* Version 1.7.4 (Cthugha)
[ INFO] [1482424511.707944000]: Loading library /usr/local/Cellar/ogre/1.7.4/lib/libRenderSystem_GL
[ INFO] [1482424511.715310000]: Installing plugin: GL RenderSystem
[ INFO] [1482424511.715470000]: OpenGL Rendering Subsystem created.
[ INFO] [1482424511.715731000]: Plugin successfully installed
[ INFO] [1482424511.715784000]: Loading library /usr/local/Cellar/ogre/1.7.4/lib/libPlugin_OctreeSceneManager
[ INFO] [1482424511.722139000]: Installing plugin: Octree & Terrain Scene Manager
[ INFO] [1482424511.722224000]: Plugin successfully installed
[ INFO] [1482424511.722266000]: Loading library /usr/local/Cellar/ogre/1.7.4/lib/libPlugin_ParticleFX
[ INFO] [1482424511.728896000]: Installing plugin: ParticleFX
[ INFO] [1482424511.728966000]: Particle ...

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Still waiting for helps~~~

ZOU Lu ( 2016-12-28 07:11:49 -0500 )edit

It may very well be that you are running into an issue that not many / no one else is running into to. That could explain the lack of response.

gvdhoorn ( 2016-12-28 08:07:48 -0500 )edit

@ZOU Lu: I've moved your answer to your OP, as it was not really an answer, but an update.

gvdhoorn ( 2016-12-30 05:14:00 -0500 )edit

It would be great if you posted your tweaks, I'm still struggling to get kinetic installed under Sierra.

Gorbag ( 2017-04-29 09:55:10 -0500 )edit

@Gorbag I actually fixed almost every issues, including rviz. But I found it's still inconvenient to run ROS on macOS, such as manually compile all packages from src. I recommend you to try install Ubuntu as a virtual machine on your Mac. Using a light weight WM like i3wm, it should run fast.

ZOU Lu ( 2017-04-30 06:18:49 -0500 )edit

I don't remember how to tweak them all, some tweaks were ugly, so the best way would be run a virtual machine. Developing under Ubuntu is like a breeze. I don't like Ubuntu actually, but it do improved my productivity. By the way, QtCreator is another Swiss Knife you should give a try.

ZOU Lu ( 2017-04-30 06:24:17 -0500 )edit

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answered 2017-01-14 17:21:38 -0500

dischu

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The problem is that rviz erroneously sets macAPI to carbon although it is cocoa - qt5 (5.7.1) is missing the define QT_MAC_USE_COCOA. After editing rviz/src/rviz/ogre_helpers/render_system.cpp, I got rviz to start.

I replaced

// Set the macAPI for Ogre based on the Qt implementation
#ifdef QT_MAC_USE_COCOA
  params["macAPI"] = "cocoa";
  params["macAPICocoaUseNSView"] = "true";
#else
  params["macAPI"] = "carbon";
#endif

by

// Set the macAPI for Ogre based on the Qt implementation
  params["macAPI"] = QT_QPA_DEFAULT_PLATFORM_NAME;
  params["macAPICocoaUseNSView"] = "true";

I am using ogre 1.7.4 by the way.

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I believe there is logic to detect and set this flag in the CMakeLists, so you can probably update that logic instead of modifying the source code.

ahendrix ( 2017-01-14 21:51:24 -0500 )edit

In case you are using the ros-install-osx install script, you can just add -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -DQT_MAC_USE_COCOA" to the catkin config call. This is brute force, but prevents any modification inside the source tree.

dischu ( 2017-01-15 06:42:49 -0500 )edit

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answered 2016-12-29 13:56:50 -0500

William

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Unfortunately there are still a few issues with rviz's OS X support, specifically you need to use a patched version of Ogre-1.9 and a branch of rviz itself (osx_ogre_1_9), see:

https://github.com/ros-visualization/...

For more details. I'm not sure which formula for ogre 1.9 is best to use right now, but you might look at what they do in this repository: https://github.com/mikepurvis/ros-ins...

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I've trie to compile the osx_ogre_1_9 branch. However, this branch haven't seen an update for about 3 years. It's designed during the indigo era and relies on qt4. I hacked into the CMakeLists.txt files and source codes to make it compile, but sip still failed to run properly.

ZOU Lu ( 2016-12-30 03:41:21 -0500 )edit

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answered 2016-12-28 12:19:41 -0500

ahendrix

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updated 2016-12-28 12:20:01 -0500

I remember seeing some tickets about rviz behaving poorly on new version of OSX, so I had a look through the tickets on the rviz bug tracker on github.

According to this: https://github.com/ros-visualization/... , newer versions of rviz require Ogre 1.8 or newer. It sounds like the recommendation is to upgrade to a newer version of Ogre, or downgrade your version of rviz.

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I followed your suggestion to install ogre 1.9. But rivz still crashes on the same spot. The ogre 1.9 is installed via brew from source

ZOU Lu ( 2016-12-29 12:15:10 -0500 )edit

Does rviz startup show that it's using Ogre 1.9? if it doesn't, you probably need to recompile rviz to use the new version of ogre.

ahendrix ( 2016-12-29 12:21:14 -0500 )edit

@ZOU Lu: in particular, we're looking for

[ INFO] [148..]: compiled against OGRE version 1.7.4 (Cthugha)

But then with 1.9.x.

gvdhoorn ( 2016-12-30 03:09:02 -0500 )edit

@ahendrix Yes, ogre 1.9 is indeed used, like this:

[ INFO] [1483090649.681563000]: compiled against OGRE version 1.9.0 (Ghadamon)

ZOU Lu ( 2016-12-30 03:38:09 -0500 )edit

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