GTK-Message warning, and no window in RVIZ when I try to open "Import File" in Scene Object
Running Melodic on Ubuntu 18.04, following this tutorial:https://ros-industrial.github.io/industrial_training/_source/session3/Motion-Planning-RVIZ.html
Near the bottom of the page it tells me to add a file for an i-beam. When I click on the "Import File" button, I get no initial indication of anything other than that the button presses (It initially looked like when I compiled RVIZ, that button didn't link back), but on further investigation, I do get a "window" open. But it doesn't generate anything usable, other than an instance. (Click on RVIZ in the task bar, and I have 2 windows. RVIZ, and the broken window.) Import URL opens a small box with a text field asking for a URL, an okay button, and a cancel.
Opening the terminal window I launched ROS from, I found
Gtk-Message: <Time Stamp>: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
This triggers on every push of the button, time stamp matches button press.
I am running ROS on the "Aubo i5" Cobot, as that is the robot I have access to. I will also add that I had to hard link all the files in the launch file, planning files, and pretty much every other file, as the "file://" which appears to be intended to "find" the file in the directory structure, it failed saying it could not find the file. So I hard linked. Everything. I know it is not good, but it is the only way I could get it to run. It is a VM on a windows machine, running 4 cores of an i7-7820HQ, 8GB of ram, and the VirtualBox VM is running on the Quadro m1100 in my work laptop. Not sure if it helps, but figured it can't hurt. I can move the robot, and can even get it to path somewhat. But I can't import anything, and that is kind of an important thing for why I am learning ros... The offline simulations I can do on the Aubo's own software for just programming.
Hey, just wondering if you had any luck with this issue.
Only thing I found @pp9 was to load the ROS-Industrial premade VM. Last time I tried it it seemed like Melodic was not ready for use. I do have the Aubo-i5 library running in the older version (it's based on 16.04 instead of 18.04.) Issues I have now I am 99% sure are PEBCAK. Not library.
I'm trying to learn move it for arm manipulation. I will try the premade VM which helped for you. Else i guess i'll have to try 16.04 (with kinect prolly). Thanks for the suggestion.
That was my intention as well. Problem for me is I am only semi-useful in linux to begin with. The VM when I downloaded it last year (not long after this post), was on 16.04 Kinetic. 18.04 and Melodic were not quite right for me. Then again, I also had a lot of linking issues on either version. I had to edit a lot of the files to hard link locations instead of letting ~/____ find the location for me. (all the files were in the right location. Never did figure out why that was failing.)
Could be the same for me too. There were a few I had to packages I had to build from source as the 'sudo apt-get' couldn't find the packages for melodic. So i might have messed some thing there in the start which is following a domino effect.