pr2_etherCAT halts motors on startup when launching large files (ros ticket #4577)

[ahendrix]

I'm launching pr2_etherCAT on my machine, and another file immediately after that. It looks like pr2_etherCAT is halting motors on startup. This only happens the first time I load the program. After I load it once, the program seems to start faster and motors don't halt. Motors halt because of a watchdog timeout.

Using cturtle, pr2_ethercat_drivers 1.1.5, pr2_robot 1.0.1

trac data:

• Owner: dking
• Reporter: watts
• Reported at: Wed Jul 21 11:02:12 2010
• URL: https://code.ros.org/trac/wg-ros-pkg/ticket/4577