Subscriber losing connection to topic on same computer

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Hello,

I have a weird problem I haven't seen before. I'm using the latest Electric debs on Ubuntu 11.10.

I have a Python node that publishes a RegionOfInterest message on topic /roi while tracking a colored object using the OpenCV CamShift filter.

When I run 'rostopic echo /roi' in another terminal, I can see the messages streaming by and updating as I move the object in front of the camera. However, after apparently random intervals, the messages stop updating--i.e. they are stuck on some last value no matter how I move the tracked object in front of the camera.

Putting a 'rospy.loginfo(roi)' command in the Camshift script just before the publish command proves that the messages are still being published correctly. In other words, the rospy.loginfo(roi) output continues to update correctly on the screen even when the 'rostopic echo /roi' messages appear stopped in the other terminal. If I Ctrl-C the 'rostopic echo /roi' command and start it up again, the messages start updating correctly again.

Not even sure how to debug this one...

Thanks!
patrick