pcd_viewer crashes after installing electric [closed]

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The pcd_viewer and pcd_viewer_simple from opt/ros/electric/stacks/perception_pcl/pcl/bin work fine. The displayed image is sized to the display window and oriented correctly. The versions of pcd_viewer and pcd_viewer_simple (and bag_viewer_simple) from perception_pcl_addons/pcl_visualization/bin have the image far off screen and it's rotated around a horizontal axis that's parallel to the display's glass (mirrored top/bottom, mirrored towards user / away from user.

I think that part of the problem is that both perception_pcl/pcl and perception_pcl_addons/pcl_visualization produce libraries called "libpcl_visualization.so". The linker sees the version from perception_pcl/pcl first, so ignores the one from perception_pcl_addons/pcl_visualization.

I messed around with renaming the library from perception_pcl_addons/pcl_visualization to be libpcl_visualization_addons.so. That fixed the undefined variables, but pcd_viewer and pcd_viewer_simple both produce blank screens. Well, pcd_viewer_simple has the nice red, blue, green axes that follow the mouse, but that's all. The same .pcd files (from bag_to_pcd) worked fine on a colleague's CloudViewer from the PCL windows download (I'm on Ubuntu 11.04).

The viewer works fine, but the viewpoint was off - the object being viewed was way off the edge of the visible windows. Randomly moving the mouse around, or using the "r" key brought it back into view.

I am encountering the same problem as well. I get the same error when I try to run the electric pcd_viewer on my .pcd file. I am running Natty Ubuntu 11.04. Any help here?

@lisherwin did you try the suggested solution to use the pcd_viewer inside pcl package instead of pcl_vidsualization. I had the same problem and this answer helped me

Otherwise you can also try to rename the pcd_viewer.so to something else, maybe this helps