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Graphics card is important
I have spent some time in the last week installing FRCSIM. However, my first many attempts failed. I got everything installed and compiled, but no matter what I ran, Gazebo would quit after a couple of seconds.
Turns out that it was because of the computer's graphics chip. It was an onboard Intel chip (somewhat old) which I guess Gazebo does not like. I moved the hard drive over to a box with a GeForce card and it ran with no problems.
As a hint, the way I figured this out was to run gzclient in the debugger. First, start "gzserver". Then "gdb gzclient" and do "run <worldfile>" where "<worldfile>" is one of the premade worlds from Gazebo. gzclient crashed but the traceback indicated it was in a "glx" routine (which is related to the graphics accelerator).
I will post some other hints next.
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