Meta-ros Kinetic runtime issue with roscore

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Hi Qnetjoe,

I would propose that you start as follows:

  1. Get an understanding of yocto and bitbake following the Yocto Quick Start:
    http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.2.1/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html
    After stepping through that document, you should be able to build and start a small Linux image in the qemu emulator.

  2. Build and run an image with ROS for the qemu emulator following the instructions at:
    hydro/Installation/OpenEmbedded - ROS Wiki

  3. Build and run a minimal image for the Microzed board, using the microzed configuration provided
    in the meta-xilinx layer at:
    Making sure you're not a bot!
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    By the way, I found this by searching on https://layers.openembedded.org/,
    and it quickly linked me to:
    OpenEmbedded Layer Index - machines

  4. Combine what you learned in Step 2 and Step 3, and build an image
    with ROS for the Microzed board. When combining, you will probably need
    to choose the build configuration that is a compromise between the build
    configurations you used in step 2 and in step 3. This will then probably need
    certain adjustments in meta-ros.

Here some further advice:

  • Get a build machine with a lot of CPU power, RAM and a SSD disk to
    build images much quicker. You will not get away with some laptop
    and some Linux virtual machine. when bitbaking the images.

  • Report issues you encounter on the meta-ros github issue tracker. Please
    always provide at least the build configuration you use, and possibly even
    the bblayers.conf file, so that others can reproduce the reported issue.

I hope this helps.

Lukas

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