What could cause an "Abnormal status" error?

[venkat-ganesh]

Hello,

On Ubuntu 14.04 with ros-indigo, I'm seeing a weird "Abnormal status" error. Here's a screenshot of rqt_robot_monitor -

Physically, the LIDAR seems to be fine. The LIDAR's LED panel doesn't show any error codes, and I receive data points as expected -

What could cause the URG driver to send out this error?

Thanks!

[anjinkristou]

I am interested to know more about this issue. Do you have a pattern to reproduce this issue?

[reinzor]

We had contact with Hokuyo and the reason for this is that this status is only fetched once (when the scanner was not initialized properly by the safety system).