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gazebo7 crashes at startup (kinetic + lubuntu16)

Hello,

I have followed the installation of ros kinetic for xenial 32bit (http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/Ubuntu). Everything went fine, I can start turtlesim and play around with nodes and messages.

My problem is with gazebo7: it simply won't start. I even installed gazeboroxpkg (http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=ros_installing) but nothing changes. It is even difficult to figure out what is going on, as I do not get much error information.

For instance, when I execute: $ rosrun gazebo_ros gazebo I simply get this:

Segmentation fault (core dumped)
/opt/ros/kinetic/lib/gazebo_ros/gazebo: 46: kill: invalid signal number or name: SIGINT

The same happens if I decide to run gzserver and then gzclient (with the exception that I do not receive the SIGINT error message).

I run all this on an old (2010) pc:

-Computer-
Processor       : 4x AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 945 Processor
Memory      : 8286MB (2003MB used)
Operating System        : Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
-Display-
Resolution      : 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer     : Unknown
X11 Vendor      : The X.Org Foundation

Asked by bracciolo22 on 2017-03-06 05:20:40 UTC

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OpenGL Renderer : Unknown

please first install a proper graphics driver. If your system has an Nvidia card, install the Nvidia drivers, for AMD, install the AMD/ATI drivers. This may not solve your problem, but it's worth making sure.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-03-06 11:42:31 UTC

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