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Problem with reading point clouds

asked 2021-05-26 10:06:57 -0500

TimeEscaper gravatar image

Dear community,

I have following problem while trying to convert PointCloud2 message to actual point cloud:

    points_list = list(pc2.read_points(msg, skip_nans=True, field_names=field_names))
  File "/opt/ros/noetic/lib/python3/dist-packages/sensor_msgs/point_cloud2.py", line 96, in read_points
    p = unpack_from(data, offset)
struct.error: unpack_from requires a buffer of at least 660022 bytes for unpacking 22 bytes at offset 660000 (actual buffer size is 660000)

I am running my nodes on server in Docker (unfortunately, I don't have opportunity to run them on server without Docker). To be more precise, I have two containers - one with Gazebo simulation from where the point clouds are published, and another one with training the agent which is subscribed on that topic. I use following keys when running both containers:

docker run --rm -it --gpus all --ipc=host --network=host

What is also strange is that previously everything was working well with same setting, and seems that there weren't any updates in server configuration. Also everything works well on my local machine with same running process with Docker. The version of the ROS is Noetic.

Does anyone have any ideas, where this problem can come from? Thank you in advance!

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Is the container running out of memory (RAM)? Encountering any new memory leaks perhaps?

ruffsl gravatar image ruffsl  ( 2021-05-29 21:05:34 -0500 )edit

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answered 2021-05-29 21:08:48 -0500

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The problem was solved by complete re-building the image from scratch, with removing existing layers. I don't even know was it the problem with ROS or with Docker.

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answered 2023-07-05 06:22:07 -0500

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For anyone having the same problem, in my case the problem was unordered point cloud. If you are using a realsense camera, use ordered_pc:=true to fix this problem.

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