rosbag file cannot be made // .bag.active

asked 2012-07-29 22:32:53 -0600

allelujah-wang
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Hello, guys! When I was using the rosbag tool to record the real data for our robot, I used the command : rosbag record -a when the whole mission was accomplished, there was no .bag file made in that folder. Instead, there was a .bag.active file was made in that folder. However, when I want to replay the data, the "rosbag play " command cannot read the .bag.active file, which made it impossible to analysis the data. I cannot find a proper answer from the pages, so I hope you guys can help me. THX

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The .bag.active file is big, about 3.5GB each round. I started the rosbag at the very beginning. @ Lorenz

allelujah-wang ( 2012-07-29 22:55:31 -0600 )edit

And how did you stop it? Just by pressing Ctrl-C and waiting or by killing it (e.g. Ctrl-\, or closing the window)?

Lorenz ( 2012-07-30 10:30:03 -0600 )edit

I have the same issue. The mistake committed was that I closed the bag file using Ctrl+Z, instead of closing the bag file using Ctrl+C.

namanskumar ( 2016-09-22 00:47:55 -0600 )edit

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answered 2012-07-29 22:47:41 -0600

Lorenz

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I guess the rosbag process didn't shut down cleanly at the end. After recording, it might need to write an index so it must shut down cleanly.

How did you start rosbag? If you were using roslaunch and the bag file is big, it might happen that roslaunch kills rosbag after 10 seconds.

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Why is this answer accepted? It does not answer the question!

Marcel Usai ( 2020-02-07 08:13:27 -0600 )edit

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answered 2015-11-14 04:02:14 -0600

Roger Yau
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updated 2015-11-14 04:03:26 -0600

If a bag was not closed cleanly, then the index information may be corrupted. Two steps are needed to repair the bag:

$ rosbag reindex *.bag.active

$ rosbag fix *.bag.active repaired.bag

http://wiki.ros.org/rosbag/Commandlin...

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I tried repairing the bag as suggested and converted it to txt file using the following command

      rostopic echo –b file.bag /rostopic> filename2.txt

The filename2.txt file is empty without any data inside it.

Found repaired.bag is not having any data inside it.

namanskumar ( 2016-09-22 00:45:24 -0600 )edit

thanks, it really work!

jiashiwei ( 2017-03-24 01:33:00 -0600 )edit

Thanks, its worked for me!

cesarhcq ( 2019-06-30 17:29:41 -0600 )edit

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answered 2012-09-15 14:08:28 -0600

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You may need to use rosbag fix or rosbag reindex to fix the bagfile if it shutdown while recording.

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