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ROS2 Navigation Stack Crashes on Launch

Published 1/19/2024 • by OpenAgent.bot Team

Symptoms

Navigation stack terminates immediately after launch with segmentation fault

Root Cause

Incompatible versions between ROS2 and Nav2, or missing dependencies

Solution
  1. Check ROS2 and Nav2 version compatibility
  2. Run: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
  3. Reinstall Nav2: sudo apt install ros-${ROS_DISTRO}-navigation2
  4. Source your workspace: source /opt/ros/${ROS_DISTRO}/setup.bash
  5. Rebuild: colcon build --symlink-install
Verification

Launch the navigation stack again. Monitor the terminal output for successful initialization of all nodes.

Tags

navigationros2crash

Affected Components

navigationruntime