error with rviz and .vcg file

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asked 2013-08-03 23:07:51 -0600

jay75
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updated 2013-09-08 22:02:45 -0600

felix k

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this is the error when following the "Building a Visual Robot Model with URDF from Scratch" tutorial with the command:

$ roslaunch urdf_tutorial display.launch model:=01-myfirst.urdf.
ERROR: the config file '/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/urdf.vcg' is a .vcg file, which is the old rviz config format.
       New config files have a .rviz extension and use YAML formatting.  The format changed
       between Fuerte and Groovy.  There is not (yet) an automated conversion program.
[rviz-3] process has died [pid 7228, exit code 1, cmd /opt/ros/groovy/lib/rviz/rviz -d /opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/urdf.vcg __name:=rviz __log:=/home/jaysin/.ros/log/4bfd76c6-fce3-11e2-9283-902b344ab2c8/rviz-3.log].
log file: /home/jaysin/.ros/log/4bfd76c6-fce3-11e2-9283-902b344ab2c8/rviz-3*.log

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answered 2013-08-05 01:23:42 -0600

felix k

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As the error message states, the RViz configuration format has changed.

As from the URDF tutorial sources that has already been fixed three months ago.

Where do you cloned your urdf_tutorial package from? And when, is it up to date? Try a git pull. Did you checked out another branch or something?

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i entered the command : rosdep install urdf_tutorial i have both urdf.rviz and urdf.vcg in it just like on the github

jay75 ( 2013-08-05 09:30:35 -0600 )edit

And which one is linked within in `display.launch`? As from the commit that should be *urdf.rviz*.

felix k ( 2013-08-05 23:07:20 -0600 )edit

I am also facing the same problem. please explain in detail.

vijyant ( 2013-08-10 03:18:23 -0600 )edit

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answered 2013-09-08 17:51:57 -0600

johnjamesmiller
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updated 2013-09-10 18:05:44 -0600

From what I gather the only path forward is to abandon the package in question and use the source from git for this particular package.

mkdir -p ~/overlay_ws/src
cd ~/overlay_ws/src
git clone git://github.com/ros/ros_tutorials.git
git clone git://github.com/ros/urdf_tutorial.git
cd ~/overlay_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/overlay_ws/devel/setup.bash
echo "source ~/overlay_ws/devel/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
roscd urdf_tutorials
pwd
# should be ~/overlay_ws/src/urdf_tutorial
cd ~/overlay_ws/src/urdf_tutorial/urdf_tutorial
roslaunch urdf_tutorial display.launch model:=06-flexible.urdf gui:=True

these steps were extracted from http://wiki.ros.org/catkin/Tutorials/workspace_overlaying (thanks for the tip felix)

It looks like the package ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials is broken. It contains a .vcg file but not a .rviz file.

dpkg-query -W ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials
ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials    0.1.2-s1374436389~precise

dpkg-query -L ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials
/.
...bunch o files
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/urdf.vcg
...bunch o files, but now .rviz

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Exploring the release repos I don't know where that release might lag. Anyway, getting the source into an [overlay](http://www.ros.org/wiki/groovy/Installation/Overlays) is the usual way. You don't have to uninstall the deb package, in which case you'll get notified for deb updates, too.

felix k ( 2013-09-08 23:57:55 -0600 )edit

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