rviz does not start when using RTI Connext

[AndreasAZiegler]

Bug report

Required Info:

• Operating System:
  • Ubuntu 18.10
• Installation type:
  • binaries
• Version or commit hash:
  • dashing-devel da5360a
• DDS implementation:
  • RTI Connext

Steps to reproduce issue

• Follow steps in https://github.com/ros-planning/navigation2/tree/dashing-devel/nav2_bringup
• When I try to start rviz it does not.

Expected behavior

Rviz starts

Actual behavior

I get the following console output

andreasziegler@AndreasZiegler:~/ros/ros2_turtlebot3_ws$ ros2 run rviz2 rviz2 -d $(ros2 pkg prefix nav2_bringup)/share/nav2_bringup/launch/nav2_default_view.rviz
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-andreasziegler'
[INFO] [rviz2]: Stereo is NOT SUPPORTED
[INFO] [rviz2]: OpenGl version: 4.6 (GLSL 4.6)
[INFO] [rviz2]: Stereo is NOT SUPPORTED

Stack trace is attached.
my_log_file.txt

[crdelsey]

@AndreasAZiegler We have briefly tried RTI Connext and found there are limits in that DDS implementation that prevent us from creating enough nodes to run the full navigation stack. I believe that is what is happening in this issue and #915

I will try to reproduce this with a simplified example and file this upstream.

A few questions to make sure I have the same configuration:

1. What type of license are you using? Is it the 30 day trial?
2. Have you made any configuration changes to connext?
3. Are you running with the ROS_DOMAIN_ID environment variable set to avoid interference with others on your network?

[AndreasAZiegler]

1. We have a commercial license from rti but I used the normal debian package (and copied our license file)
2. No
3. No, I did not set ROS_DOMAIN_ID as I was not aware of this. How can I use this? As we have quite a lot of other devices using plain rit Connext DDS it could actually be worth a try.

[crdelsey]

Here's the info on ROS_DOMAIN_ID https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/Contributing/ROS-2-On-boarding-Guide/#choose-a-dds-domain-id

We ran into problems with that. Each developer would interfere with the others on the network producing strange results.

[SteveMacenski]

@AndreasAZiegler @crdelsey this ticket doesn't seem to directly relate to this project, can we close or redirect the issue to the appropriate projects (Rviz)?

[AndreasAZiegler]

I'm fine if someone redirects this issue to the appropriate project. In case someone following this issue comes up with a solution I would be glad if he/she would write about the solution here (as well).

[mkhansenbot]

@AndreasAZiegler - I think this is a duplicate of this issue:
ros2/rviz#437

[SteveMacenski]

@mkhansen-intel so it is, closing here then.