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executable 'spawner' not found on the libexec directory '/opt/ros/foxy/lib/controller_manager' problem

asked 2022-11-14 05:48:25 -0500

Edvard gravatar image

updated 2022-11-14 05:50:16 -0500

Hi. Sorry for all mistakes, English is not my native language. I almost successfully migrated my project from Noetic to Foxy and now I'm to launch my packages. I have the following problem:

[INFO] [launch]: All log files can be found below /home/mikita/.ros/log/2022-11-14-03-39-50-208073-ubuntu-11543
[INFO] [launch]: Default logging verbosity is set to INFO
Task exception was never retrieved
future: <Task finished name='Task-2' coro=<LaunchService._process_one_event() done, defined at /opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/launch/launch_service.py:226> exception=SubstitutionFailure("executable 'spawner' not found on the libexec directory '/opt/ros/foxy/lib/controller_manager' ")>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/launch/launch_service.py", line 228, in _process_one_event
    await self.__process_event(next_event)
File "/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/launch/launch_service.py", line 248, in __process_event
    visit_all_entities_and_collect_futures(entity, self.__context))
File "/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/launch/utilities/visit_all_entities_and_collect_futures_impl.py", line 45, in visit_all_entities_and_collect_futures
    futures_to_return += visit_all_entities_and_collect_futures(sub_entity, context)
File "/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/launch/utilities/visit_all_entities_and_collect_futures_impl.py", line 45, in visit_all_entities_and_collect_futures
    futures_to_return += visit_all_entities_and_collect_futures(sub_entity, context)
File "/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/launch/utilities/visit_all_entities_and_collect_futures_impl.py", line 45, in visit_all_entities_and_collect_futures
    futures_to_return += visit_all_entities_and_collect_futures(sub_entity, context)
[Previous line repeated 1 more time]
File "/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/launch/utilities/visit_all_entities_and_collect_futures_impl.py", line 38, in visit_all_entities_and_collect_futures
    sub_entities = entity.visit(context)
File "/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/launch/action.py", line 108, in visit
    return self.execute(context)
File "/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/launch_ros/actions/node.py", line 453, in execute
    ret = super().execute(context)
File "/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/launch/actions/execute_process.py", line 823, in execute
    self.__expand_substitutions(context)
File "/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/launch/actions/execute_process.py", line 668, in __expand_substitutions
    cmd = [perform_substitutions(context, x) for x in self.__cmd]
File "/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/launch/actions/execute_process.py", line 668, in <listcomp>
    cmd = [perform_substitutions(context, x) for x in self.__cmd]
File "/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/launch/utilities/perform_substitutions_impl.py", line 26, in perform_substitutions
    return ''.join([context.perform_substitution(sub) for sub in subs])
File "/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/launch/utilities/perform_substitutions_impl.py", line 26, in <listcomp>
    return ''.join([context.perform_substitution(sub) for sub in subs])
File "/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/launch/launch_context.py", line 232, in perform_substitution
    return substitution.perform(self)
File "/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/launch_ros/substitutions/executable_in_package.py", line 84, in perform
    raise SubstitutionFailure(
launch.substitutions.substitution_failure.SubstitutionFailure: executable 'spawner' not found on the libexec directory '/opt/ros/foxy/lib/controller_manager'

This is how my launch file looks like:

import os
import sys

import launch
import launch_ros.actions
from ament_index_python.packages import get_package_share_directory


def generate_launch_description():
    ld = launch.LaunchDescription([
        launch_ros.actions.Node(
            package='controller_manager',
            executable='spawner',
            name='controller_spawner',
            output='screen',
            parameters=[
                {
                    '/minicar/controller/enable_odom_tf': 'true'
                },
                {
                    'robot_description': "minicar.gazebo.xacro"
                }
            ]
        ),
        launch_ros.actions.Node(
            package='robot_state_publisher',
            executable='robot_state_publisher',
            name='robot_state_publisher',
            parameters=[
                {
                    '/minicar/controller ...
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answered 2022-11-14 23:41:55 -0500

ravijoshi gravatar image

There could be following two issues. Please check:

  1. Please install controller-manager as shown below:

    sudo apt install ros-foxy-controller-manager
    
  2. The executable name seems spawner.py based on the documentation.

    ros2 run controller_manager spawner.py -h
    
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It works. Thank you very much!

Edvard gravatar image Edvard  ( 2022-11-15 00:24:22 -0500 )edit

I am glad you made it work!

ravijoshi gravatar image ravijoshi  ( 2022-11-15 00:30:04 -0500 )edit

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