I put the entire output (there are a couple of warn message too):
franco@franco-dv6:~/ros_workspace/hector_quadrotor$ roslaunch hector_quadrotor_demo outdoor_flight_gazebo.launch
... logging to /home/franco/.ros/log/352e3458-c05d-11e1-b2e2-0026c60ec908/roslaunch-franco-dv6-3497.log
Checking log directory for disk usage. This may take awhile.
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Done checking log file disk usage. Usage is <1GB.
started roslaunch server http://franco-dv6:56736/
SUMMARY
PARAMETERS
* /ground_truth_to_tf/frame_id
* /ground_truth_to_tf/odometry_topic
* /robot_description
* /robot_state_publisher/publish_frequency
* /robot_state_publisher/tf_prefix
* /rosdistro
* /rosversion
* /use_sim_time
NODES
/
gazebo (gazebo/gazebo)
ground_truth_to_tf (odometry_to_tf/odometry_to_tf)
robot_state_publisher (robot_state_publisher/state_publisher)
rviz (rviz/rviz)
spawn_robot (gazebo/spawn_model)
ROS_MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11311
core service [/rosout] found
Exception AttributeError: AttributeError("'_DummyThread' object has no attribute '_Thread__block'",) in <module 'threading'="" from="" '="" usr="" lib="" python2.7="" threading.pyc'=""> ignored
process[gazebo-1]: started with pid [3520]
Exception AttributeError: AttributeError("'_DummyThread' object has no attribute '_Thread__block'",) in <module 'threading'="" from="" '="" usr="" lib="" python2.7="" threading.pyc'=""> ignored
process[spawn_robot-2]: started with pid [3528]
Gazebo multi-robot simulator, version 1.0.2
Copyright (C) 2011 Nate Koenig, John Hsu, Andrew Howard, and contributors.
Released under the Apache 2 License.
http://gazebosim.org
Exception AttributeError: AttributeError("'_DummyThread' object has no attribute '_Thread__block'",) in <module 'threading'="" from="" '="" usr="" lib="" python2.7="" threading.pyc'=""> ignored
process[robot_state_publisher-3]: started with pid [3538]
As a workaround, you can add an extra dummy link to your URDF.
Exception AttributeError: AttributeError("'_DummyThread' object has no attribute '_Thread__block'",) in <module 'threading'="" from="" '="" usr="" lib="" python2.7="" threading.pyc'=""> ignored
[1;process[ground_truth_to_tf-4]: started with pid [3561]
33mWarning [parser.cc:332] Gazebo SDF has no gazebo element
Warning [parser.cc:243] parser for sdf version 1.0 failed, trying to parse as old deprecated format
Msg Waiting for master
Msg Connected to gazebo master @ http://localhost:11345
Exception AttributeError: AttributeError("'_DummyThread' object has no attribute '_Thread__block'",) in <module 'threading'="" from="" '="" usr="" lib="" python2.7="" threading.pyc'=""> ignored
process[rviz-5]: started with pid [3594]
Config file '/home/franco/.rviz/config' could not be opened for reading.
gzserver: /home/franco/Gazebo/ogre_src_v1-7-4/OgreMain/include/OgreSingleton.h:80: Ogre::Singleton<t>::Singleton() [with T = Ogre::TerrainPageSourceListenerManager]: Assertion `!ms_Singleton' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
================================================================================REQUIRED process [gazebo-1] has died!
process has died [pid 3520, exit code 134, cmd /opt/ros/fuerte/stacks/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/scripts/gazebo /home/franco/ros_workspace/hector_gazebo/hector_gazebo_worlds/worlds/rolling_landscape_120m.world __name:=gazebo __log:=/home/franco/.ros/log/352e3458-c05d-11e1-b2e2-0026c60ec908/gazebo-1.log].
log file: /home/franco/.ros/log/352e3458-c05d-11e1-b2e2-0026c60ec908/gazebo-1*.log
Initiating shutdown!
================================================================================
loading model xml from ros parameter
[rviz-5] killing on exit
[ground_truth_to_tf-4] killing on exit
[robot_state_publisher-3] killing on exit
[spawn_robot-2] killing on exit
[gazebo-1] killing on exit
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/ros/fuerte/stacks/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/scripts/spawn_model", line 293, in <module>
sm.callSpawnService()
File "/opt/ros/fuerte/stacks/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/scripts/spawn_model", line 239, in callSpawnService
rospy.wait_for_service('/gazebo/get_physics_properties')
File "/opt/ros/fuerte/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rospy/impl/tcpros_service.py", line 158, in wait_for_service
raise ROSInterruptException("rospy shutdown")
rospy.exceptions.ROSInterruptException: rospy shutdown
shutting down processing monitor...
... shutting down processing monitor complete
done
Looks like it is an API issue. In the hector quadroto announcement they did say that they would be updating for Gazebo 1.0 after Fuerte was released: http://www.ros.org/news/2012/03/announcement-of-hector-quadrotor-stack.html. There is also a Fuerte branch in their svn repo.