bash: rosrun: command not found

[kledom]

Hello,

When running remote nodes I get the error 'bash: rosrun: command not found'. The troubleshooting section in the documentation suggest to remove the line #[ -z "$PS1" ] && return from .bashrc. I think in my case (Ubuntu 18.04) I have to comment out the following line: case $- in *i*) ;; *) return;; esac

However, I'm unsure on why this is necessary and what are the downsides of commenting it out?

[atiderko]

Hi,

it is not necessary to comment it out. You can also put source /opt/ros/melodic/setup.bash before these lines.

[kledom]

Thank you for your fast reply. Putting something before case $- in *i*) ;; *) return;; esac still has some major drawbacks. To give an example: I have a file ros_vars.bash that I source in .bashrc in order to setup ROS_IP and ROS_URI. I'm sure those variables are also required for node_manager. My script also outputs the current interface and ROS_IP on execution. If I put the line source ~/ros_vars.bash before the non-interactive return statement, scp stops working because it can't handle the echo statements.

Could you change the rosrun command in node_manager so that bashrc is sourced beforehand? I think this would be a much cleaner solution.

[atiderko]

if I source bashrc in a non interactive shell it exits at the same position case $- in *i*) ;; *) return;; esac.

Do you have a solution?

PS: remote nodes are started by this code

[kledom]

I ended up adding the "case $- in i) ;; *) return;; esac" line to my ros_vars file and putting the ROS block at the top of .bashrc as you mentioned.

[atiderko]

:-/ I would have been happy to see a more elegant solution. Thank you for posting your chosen solution!