Stuck on an issue?

Lightrun Answers was designed to reduce the constant googling that comes with debugging 3rd party libraries. It collects links to all the places you might be looking at while hunting down a tough bug.

And, if you’re still stuck at the end, we’re happy to hop on a call to see how we can help out.

ROS2 Error: Launch request requires an absolute path as target

See original GitHub issue

I created a launch.json file as seen below:

{
	"version": "0.2.0",
	"configurations": [
		{
			"name": "ROS: Launch",
			"type": "ros",
			"request": "launch",
			"target": "/workspaces/mypkg/install/mypkg/share/mypkg/launch/mylaunchfile.launch.py"
		}
	]
}

When I run it, I get the error Launch request requires an absolute path as target and nothing happens. And I’m obviously already passing an absolute path to target.

How can I launch my launch file?

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

maciej-autoboncommented, Jun 25, 2021

@ooeygui Thanks for the answer! 😃 I haven’t tried it yet, all my launch commands are using ros2 run ... but I’ll give the ros2 launch ... a go and let you know how it went.

1reaction

seanyencommented, Jan 13, 2021

@siferati Hi, thanks for reporting this issue. I am recently working on adding ROS2 launch debug support in this extension. And I’d like to invite you to try it from our daily build and see if it solves this issue. Thanks!