Controller manager not available in ROS2

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I can visualize my robot on gazebo but I get an error when launch file is starting like below. How can I fix that?

Error:

[spawn_entity.py-2] [INFO] [1677146674.436718834] [spawn_entity]: Calling service /spawn_entity
[spawn_entity.py-2] [INFO] [1677146674.546574796] [spawn_entity]: Spawn status: SpawnEntity: Successfully spawned entity [robotic_arm]
[spawn_entity.py-2] [INFO] [1677146674.546986992] [spawn_entity]: Waiting for shutdown to delete entity [robotic_arm]
[spawner.py-5] [INFO] [1677146675.487867687] [spawner_joint_state_broadcaster]: Waiting for /controller_manager services
[spawner.py-6] [INFO] [1677146675.520714798] [spawner_joint_trajectory_controller]: Waiting for /controller_manager services
[spawner.py-5] [INFO] [1677146677.503342629] [spawner_joint_state_broadcaster]: Waiting for /controller_manager services
[spawner.py-6] [INFO] [1677146677.535238788] [spawner_joint_trajectory_controller]: Waiting for /controller_manager services
[spawner.py-5] [INFO] [1677146679.521864875] [spawner_joint_state_broadcaster]: Waiting for /controller_manager services
[spawner.py-6] [INFO] [1677146679.554316012] [spawner_joint_trajectory_controller]: Waiting for /controller_manager services
[spawner.py-5] [INFO] [1677146681.537992430] [spawner_joint_state_broadcaster]: Waiting for /controller_manager services
[spawner.py-6] [INFO] [1677146681.572181275] [spawner_joint_trajectory_controller]: Waiting for /controller_manager services
[spawner.py-5] [ERROR] [1677146683.557500368] [spawner_joint_state_broadcaster]: Controller manager not available
[spawner.py-6] [ERROR] [1677146683.591099846] [spawner_joint_trajectory_controller]: Controller manager not available
[ERROR] [spawner.py-5]: process has died [pid 18233, exit code 1, cmd '/opt/ros/foxy/lib/controller_manager/spawner.py joint_state_broadcaster --controller-manager /controller_manager --ros-args'].
[ERROR] [spawner.py-6]: process has died [pid 18235, exit code 1, cmd '/opt/ros/foxy/lib/controller_manager/spawner.py joint_trajectory_controller -c /controller_manager --ros-args'].

SOLVED: The problem was ROS2 version and changing in launch file. It works with Ubuntu 22.04 Humble and you should install all control package such as joint_trajectory_controller, joint_state_broadcaster, controller_manager, joint-state-publisher-gui then edit your launch file.

New Launch File:

from launch import LaunchDescription
from launch.actions import ExecuteProcess, IncludeLaunchDescription, RegisterEventHandler
from launch.event_handlers import OnProcessExit
from launch.launch_description_sources import PythonLaunchDescriptionSource
from launch.substitutions import Command, FindExecutable, PathJoinSubstitution
from launch_ros.actions import Node
from launch_ros.substitutions import FindPackageShare


def generate_launch_description():

    robot_description_content = Command(
        [
            PathJoinSubstitution([FindExecutable(name='xacro')]),
            ' ',
            PathJoinSubstitution(
                [FindPackageShare(
                    'robotic_arm'),
                    'urdf',
                    'robotic_arm.urdf']
            ),
        ]
    )
    robot_description = {'robot_description': robot_description_content}

    node_robot_state_publisher = Node(
        package='robot_state_publisher',
        executable='robot_state_publisher',
        output='screen',
        parameters=[robot_description]
    )

    gazebo = IncludeLaunchDescription(
        PythonLaunchDescriptionSource(
            [FindPackageShare('gazebo_ros'), '/launch', '/gazebo.launch.py']
        ),
    )

    spawn_entity = Node(package='gazebo_ros', executable='spawn_entity.py',
                        arguments=['-topic', 'robot_description',
                                   '-entity', 'joints'],
                        output='screen')

    load_joint_state_controller = ExecuteProcess(
        cmd=['ros2', 'control', 'load_controller', '--set-state', 'active',
             'joint_state_broadcaster'],
        output='screen'
    )

    load_trajectory_controller = ExecuteProcess(
        cmd=['ros2', 'control', 'load_controller', '--set-state', 'active',
             'joint_trajectory_controller'],
        output='screen'
    )



    return LaunchDescription([
        RegisterEventHandler(
          event_handler=OnProcessExit(
                target_action=spawn_entity,
                on_exit=[load_joint_state_controller],
            )
        ),
        RegisterEventHandler(
            event_handler=OnProcessExit(
                target_action=load_joint_state_controller,
                on_exit=[load_trajectory_controller],
            )
        ),

        gazebo,
        node_robot_state_publisher,
        spawn_entity,
    ])