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I used 'roscore &' to launch the ROS master server in a shell script. That might not have been a good idea. After invoking this script I failed to kill process rosout as it always respawns with a different pid. It looks like a watchdog process but I couldn't find one so far. Is there any possibility to kill rosout without having to restart my system?
It's a python script. So killall python will work.
If you have other python stuff running: ps aux|grep roscore and kill the python process with roscore in the name
roscore itself is set to always keep respawning rosout. You have to kill the roscore process in order to resolve this.
For the future edit /opt/ros/indigo/etc/ros/roscore.xml (change the path according to your ros distribution) and set respawn to false for rosout:
<node pkg="rosout" type="rosout" name="rosout" respawn="false"/>
This will only work after a roscore restart.
I had the same problem of a rosout process that keeps respawning. The problem is that roscore is running, but finding it takes some effort. 'ps -e' doesn't show it, but if you do 'ps aux' you'll see it (along with a couple of other roscore related processes along for the ride). You need to kill them all
perhaps: killall roscore
Asked: 2011-03-08 02:23:07 -0600
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Last updated: Sep 06 '16
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