ros::service::waitForService() blocks infinite

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When i use ros::service::call() to call e.g. gazebo/apply_joint_effort inside a rostest (c++,gtest) the call sometimes fail and sometimes don't fail ?

So i thought, using ros::service::waitForService("gazebo/apply_joint_effort", -1)) to wait for "something" and then use the call() function, but the waitForService() is blocking endless. But when i call the service with the commandline tool "rosservice", the service is available and returns success ?

is waitForService() for another usage?

thanks flo

Change 1: Inserting

SET(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -pthread")
rosbuild_add_gtest(test/mytest test/mytest.cpp)

into CMakeList.txt file and running then the binary bin/test/mytest the service call returns success, but the service (force) does not get applied to the model in gazebo?

gazebo dies with:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  Time is out of dual 32-bit range

Aborted (core dumped)

I got ubuntu-12.04-amd64 installed. Someone knows what this error causes?

Also if i use:

rosbuild_add_executable()
rosbuild_add_gtest_build_flags()
rosbuild_add_rostest()

in my CMakeList.txt file instead the two other options mentioned before, and run rostest mypackage mytest the test is run 3 times in a row after building? Why is that so? Also the rostest lib cannot call the service, but the test-binary can call the service (but gazebo dies) ?

Is there a way to prevent the test from running after building it with make test?