Running sim_vehicle.sh (Ubuntu Linux)

Hi all!

I have been trying SITL for Ubuntu Linux but I have been having trouble. While I can successfully run the command “sim_vehicle.sh --console --map --aircraft test”, and a GPS map and console opens up, I also get a message “Waiting for heartbeat from tcp:127.0.0.1:5760”, and no plane appears on my map (at least I can’t find any), and the MAV> command prompt does not give me any feedback to my commands.

Could anyone help me out here? I’ve been at this for two days with no success.

Thank you very much!

PS: I hope I’m posting in the correct section. I apologise if I am not.

5760 is the port that ArduPlane (or any other vehicle) and MAVProxy communicate on. Do you have any old running processes i.e is MAVProxy still running from a previous failed start and its now blocking communication on that port?
Thanks, Grant.

I’m having a similar issue, but I’m trying to run SITL on OSX/Vagrant and the issues sound similar. Were you able to get past this? My issue is here:

viewtopic.php?f=81&t=14652

Best,
Peter

Did you find the answer? I have the same problem.

I had this issue yesterday after loading ROS KINETIC on LTS 16.04 and when I launched SITL, it showed python error related to “kwag” and No Vehicle on MAP.

I did a tool reinstall-prereqs-ubuntu.sh and then I realized that the script do not set environment variables on .bashrc as we use to work with ROS, but on .profile , so we need to Logout/Login in order to get the new environment set.

Please the confirm is that’s fixing your problem.

No, it didn’t help.
Ubuntu LTS 18.04 ArduCopter 3.5
Sorry. There is a small nuance that I build for copter

volk@vbox:~/ardupilot/ardupilot/ArduCopter$ sim_vehicle.py -j4 --map --console
SIM_VEHICLE: Start
SIM_VEHICLE: Killing tasks
SIM_VEHICLE: Starting up at -35.363261,149.165230,584,353 (CMAC)
SIM_VEHICLE: WAF build
SIM_VEHICLE: Configure waf
SIM_VEHICLE: "/home/volk/ardupilot/ardupilot/modules/waf/waf-light" "configure" "--board" "sitl"
Setting top to                           : /home/volk/ardupilot/ardupilot 
Setting out to                           : /home/volk/ardupilot/ardupilot/build 
Autoconfiguration                        : enabled 
Setting board to                         : sitl 
Checking for 'g++' (C++ compiler)        : /usr/lib/ccache/g++ 
Checking for 'gcc' (C compiler)          : /usr/lib/ccache/gcc 
Checking for need to link with librt     : not necessary 
Checking for HAVE_CMATH_ISFINITE         : yes 
Checking for HAVE_CMATH_ISINF            : yes 
Checking for HAVE_CMATH_ISNAN            : yes 
Checking for NEED_CMATH_ISFINITE_STD_NAMESPACE : yes 
Checking for NEED_CMATH_ISINF_STD_NAMESPACE    : yes 
Checking for NEED_CMATH_ISNAN_STD_NAMESPACE    : yes 
Checking for header endian.h                   : yes 
Checking for header byteswap.h                 : yes 
Checking for program 'python'                  : /usr/bin/python 
Checking for python version >= 2.7.0           : 2.7.15 
Checking for program 'python'                  : /usr/bin/python 
Checking for python version >= 2.7.0           : 2.7.15 
Source is git repository                       : yes 
Update submodules                              : yes 
Checking for program 'git'                     : /usr/bin/git 
Checking for program 'size'                    : /usr/bin/size 
Benchmarks                                     : disabled 
Unit tests                                     : enabled 
'configure' finished successfully (3.038s)
SIM_VEHICLE: Building
SIM_VEHICLE: "/home/volk/ardupilot/ardupilot/modules/waf/waf-light" "build" "--target" "bin/arducopter" "-j" "4"
Waf: Entering directory `/home/volk/ardupilot/ardupilot/build/sitl'
Waf: Leaving directory `/home/volk/ardupilot/ardupilot/build/sitl'

BUILD SUMMARY
Build directory: /home/volk/ardupilot/ardupilot/build/sitl
Target          Text     Data   BSS    Total  
----------------------------------------------
bin/arducopter  1569380  56142  36416  1661938

Build commands will be stored in build/sitl/compile_commands.json
'build' finished successfully (5.940s)
SIM_VEHICLE: Using defaults from (/home/volk/ardupilot/ardupilot/Tools/autotest/default_params/copter.parm)
SIM_VEHICLE: Run ArduCopter
SIM_VEHICLE: "/home/volk/ardupilot/ardupilot/Tools/autotest/run_in_terminal_window.sh" "ArduCopter" "/home/volk/ardupilot/ardupilot/build/sitl/bin/arducopter" "-S" "-I0" "--home" "-35.363261,149.165230,584,353" "--model" "+" "--speedup" "1" "--defaults" "/home/volk/ardupilot/ardupilot/Tools/autotest/default_params/copter.parm"
SIM_VEHICLE: Run MavProxy
SIM_VEHICLE: "mavproxy.py" "--master" "tcp:127.0.0.1:5760" "--sitl" "127.0.0.1:5501" "--out" "127.0.0.1:14550" "--out" "127.0.0.1:14551" "--map" "--console"
RiTW: Starting ArduCopter : /home/volk/ardupilot/ardupilot/build/sitl/bin/arducopter -S -I0 --home -35.363261,149.165230,584,353 --model + --speedup 1 --defaults /home/volk/ardupilot/ardupilot/Tools/autotest/default_params/copter.parm
# Option “-e” is deprecated and might be removed in a later version of gnome-terminal.
# Use “-- ” to terminate the options and put the command line to execute after it.
Connect tcp:127.0.0.1:5760 source_system=255
Loaded module console
Loaded module map
Log Directory: 
Telemetry log: mav.tlog
Waiting for heartbeat from tcp:127.0.0.1:5760
MAV>

This might be a hint.

Could you try installing xterm and see if using it bypasses this issue,
please?

run-in-terminal-window.sh uses xterm by preference, so I’m guessing you
don’t currently have it installed.

pbarker@bluebottle:~$ dpkg -S which xterm
xterm: /usr/bin/xterm
pbarker@bluebottle:~$

You were right. Xterm wasn’t install. So I install it, but it didn’t help. Now ArduCopter starts in xterm. Information from the window:

Started model + at -35.363261,149.165230,584,353 at speed 1.0
Starting sketch 'ArduCopter'
Starting SITL input
Using Irlock at port : 9005
bind port 5760 for 0
Serial port 0 on TCP port 5760
Waiting for connection ....
Smoothing reset at 0.001
Remaining: 0.250000 litres
Pump: 0.000000 l/s
Spinner: 0.000000 rev/s
position_demand=0.000000 jaw_gap=30.000000 load=0.000000
check_group_info:184: Duplicate group idx 7 for SMART_RTL
Bad var table

I rolled back the version of the project to the previous one and it worked. Very strange, because the current version of the project is compiled. In any case, I am happy, I will try to continue working with the previous version.

I forgot to thank all people for the advice you gave.

Is this with an absolutely pristine source tree?

Try starting sim_vehicle with “-w” to clear the parameters - but the
problem you see here is usually because parameter specification has been
stuffed up somehow…

I changed the code of one of the libraries, but did not touch any parameters of the specification. I tried to run sim_vehicle with “-w” first, but it did not help.