Hi
I have similar issue. I believe this happens when you purposefully shutdown the load up sequence using ctrl-c. Or, while loading you close the terminal window.
Here is the debug info:
roslaunch simBotUnicycle simBotEmptyWorld.launch
... logging to /home/sid-ros/.ros/log/fa892870-22a5-11e2-b62b-e0b9a546c315/roslaunch-sidros-G53SW-28253.log
Checking log directory for disk usage. This may take awhile.
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Done checking log file disk usage. Usage is <1GB.
started roslaunch server http://sidros-G53SW:39098/
SUMMARY
========
PARAMETERS
* /robot_description
* /robot_pose_ekf/freq
* /robot_pose_ekf/imu_used
* /robot_pose_ekf/odom_used
* /robot_pose_ekf/publish_tf
* /robot_pose_ekf/sensor_timeout
* /robot_pose_ekf/vo_used
* /robot_state_publisher/publish_frequency
* /robot_state_publisher/tf_prefix
* /rosdistro
* /rosversion
* /use_sim_time
NODES
/
gazebo (gazebo/debug)
gazebo_gui (gazebo/gui)
robot_pose_ekf (robot_pose_ekf/robot_pose_ekf)
robot_state_publisher (robot_state_publisher/state_publisher)
spawn_robot (gazebo/spawn_model)
ROS_MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11311
core service [/rosout] found
Exception AttributeError: AttributeError("'_DummyThread' object has no attribute '_Thread__block'",) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.pyc'> ignored
process[gazebo-1]: started with pid [28276]
Exception AttributeError: AttributeError("'_DummyThread' object has no attribute '_Thread__block'",) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.pyc'> ignored
process[gazebo_gui-2]: started with pid [28287]
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Reading symbols from /opt/ros/fuerte/stacks/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/gazebo/bin/gzserver...Gazebo multi-robot simulator, version 1.0.2
Copyright (C) 2011 Nate Koenig, John Hsu, Andrew Howard, and contributors.
Released under the Apache 2 License.
http://gazebosim.org
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
[tcsetpgrp failed in terminal_inferior: Inappropriate ioctl for device]
Exception AttributeError: AttributeError("'_DummyThread' object has no attribute '_Thread__block'",) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.pyc'> ignored
process[spawn_robot-3]: started with pid [28292]
[tcsetpgrp failed in terminal_inferior: Inappropriate ioctl for device]
[tcsetpgrp failed in terminal_inferior: Inappropriate ioctl for device]
Exception AttributeError: AttributeError("'_DummyThread' object has no attribute '_Thread__block'",) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.pyc'> ignored
process[robot_state_publisher-4]: started with pid [28296]
[ WARN] [1351611279.372161513]: The root link base_footprint has an inertia specified in the URDF, but KDL does not support a root link with an inertia. As a workaround, you can add an extra dummy link to your URDF.
Exception AttributeError: AttributeError("'_DummyThread' object has no attribute '_Thread__block'",) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.pyc'> ignored
process[robot_pose_ekf-5]: started with pid [28323]
Msg Waiting for master
Msg Connected to gazebo master @ http://localhost:11345
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[ INFO] [1351611279.675777569, 1419.993000000]: Initializing Odom sensor
[ INFO] [1351611279.675847860, 1419.993000000]: Odom sensor activated
[ INFO] [1351611279.685996360, 1420.015000000]: Initializing Imu sensor
[ INFO] [1351611279.686059671, 1420.015000000]: Imu sensor activated
[ INFO] [1351611279.690917444, 1420.027000000]: Kalman filter initialized ...
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