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Can nodes be made to automatically restart on segmentation faults? [closed]

asked 2012-07-15 00:35:44 -0600

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Is there a convenient way to tell roslaunch to automatically restart nodes if/when they segfault or otherwise die.

I realize that in an ideal world, I'd just fix the errors properly. However, parts of the code aren't mine and I'll be using them in a live demo. So I'd prefer to have them run in a 'best effort' mode. :)

One obvious option would be to launch the buggy nodes using a bash script:

while : ; do rosrun package node; done

but I was wondering if there was a more idiomatic ROS style?

Thanks.

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answered 2012-07-15 02:38:13 -0600

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roslaunch provides the respawn attribute. E.g.:

<roslaunch>
  <node name="foo" pkg="package" type="node" respawn="true" />
</roslaunch>

Check out the documentation here.

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Yes respawn will to the job. But may the questioner shut more be concerned about the segmentation fault and its causes, rather then just search for a work around. By the way, the most common cause of segfault is bad memory handling and faulty assumptions about availability of resources.