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What is an ideal way of debugging a segmentation fault in ROS?

asked 2012-03-14 01:32:27 -0500

karthik gravatar image

Hi, I generally use gdb to debug my run time errors in my C++ programs. But in ros as it spins n waits for the msgs in topics, the gdb doesn't really work well. So I want to know if there is another method to debug the ros codes when they run into segmentation faults.

Thanks, Karthik

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answered 2012-03-14 04:00:50 -0500

You can launch nodes directly in gdb, here is some more info:

http://www.ros.org/wiki/roslaunch/Tutorials/Roslaunch%20Nodes%20in%20Valgrind%20or%20GDB

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answered 2012-03-14 02:40:39 -0500

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For debugging ROS nodes I use the same way as for any other C++ program: gdb/ddd/kdbg.

The spinning shouldn't be a problem, just start of with the message handler in the backtrace. This is under the assumption that you want to debug your ROS code and not the ROS core functionality, which I would consider mostly bug-free.

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I am not very experienced with using gdb and ddd. How would I go about debugging nodes launched with roslaunch using ddd? Thanks!

vkee gravatar image vkee  ( 2017-08-22 05:53:26 -0500 )edit

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