RQt publishes only null/default messages in ROS2 Foxy - ros

I have ROS2 Foxy set up on an Ubuntu 20.04 machine. When using RQt, I am able to see all the topics on my network just fine and I am able to subscribe to all of them and even plot them on a live graph. However, publishing doesn't work correctly and always publishes null/default messages. For example, if I try to publish a Bool message with the data as "true" then it still publishes "false". Same with any numeric types - whatever number I try to publish, it always publishes 0. See the image for examples:
RQt screenshot
To debug, I have tried publishing these same messages from Python scripts and from the 'ros2 pub' command line utility. These always work just fine and my subscribers in RQt are able to see the correct values being published. Has anyone else dealt with this? What is the underlying cause and how to solve it? Is it perhaps fixed in ROS2 Galactic?

As user '2b-t' pointed out in the comments, this is an issue where working code was removed from rqt_publisher in the foxy-devel branch. So while RQt in ROS2 Foxy is broken, for now there is a workaround of cloning rqt_publisher into your ROS2 workspace and manually adding in the missing code. It's easy and there's an example pull request created by a github user 'coalman321' which shows how to revert the offending commit here (https://github.com/ros-visualization/rqt_publisher/pull/28/files).
Steps to fix:
cd into the src directory your ROS2 workspace
git clone https://github.com/ros-visualization/rqt_publisher.git
cd rqt_publisher
git checkout foxy-devel
git revert 367049ecc4ce3cab
cd back up to the root of your ROS2 workspace
colcon build --symlink-install --packages-up-to rqt_publisher
source install/local_setup.bash
Now when you run rqt and publish a non-null value, it should work correctly! You can monitor the value either from command line e.g. ros2 topic echo or from the Topic Monitor within RQt itself.

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Puppet Code Manager setup issue with Bitbucket

I have just installed puppet server enterprise and successfully added a few nodes and got some custom modules running also. I am now wanting to move to Code Manager before we get too deep in it.
I have followed the instructions for creating an empty Bitbucket repo here and initializing it with one single file environment.conf on a production branch as described in that link.
I have then followed the steps here to configure Code Manager but when I get to Test the control repository section to test the connection with puppet-code deploy --dry-run I get the following error:
--dry-run implies --all.
--dry-run implies --wait.
Dry-run deploying all environments.
2021/12/21 20:21:12 ERROR - [POST /deploys][500] Errors while collecting a list of environments to deploy (exit code: 1).
"/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/rugged-0.27.7/lib/rugged/repository.rb:258: warning: Using the last argument as keyword parameters is deprecated\nERROR\t -\u003e Unable to determine current branches for Git source 'puppet' (/etc/puppetlabs/code-staging/environments)\nOriginal exception:\nFailed to authenticate SSH session: Unable to send userauth-publickey request at /opt/puppetlabs/server/data/code-manager/git/git#git.company.com-1234-in-puppet-control-repo.git\n"
I have added the puppet server's SSH pub key to the bitbucket repo's access tokens.
There are a few things in that error message im not fully understanding.
Unable to determine current branches for Git source 'puppet' - What is meant by source 'puppet' - my repo is called puppet-control-repo...?
Failed to authenticate SSH session: Unable to send userauth-publickey request - My puppet master's SSH keys are in the token list for that repo so confused here also.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
UPDATE (13-01-2022):
I can successfully clone on puppet server using command
git clone ssh://git#git.example.com:1234/project/puppet-control-repo.git --config core.sshCommand="ssh -i /etc/puppetlabs/puppetserver/ssh/id-control_repo.rsa"
Note sure why puppet is still returning:
Failed to authenticate SSH session: Unable to send userauth-publickey request
I don't know if you saw the instructions here https://puppet.com/docs/pe/2021.4/control_repo.html#managing_environments_with_a_control_repository but you can run
puppet infrastructure configure
which makes sure the files have right permissions.
I would also test attempting a clone with keys works outside of code deploy
git clone -i /etc/puppetlabs/puppetserver/ssh/id-control_repo.rsa your_gir_url
If this works it may be worth being aware of an issue we experienced on github https://puppet.com/blog/how-githubs-protocol-changes-impact-your-puppet-code-deployments/ which depending on bitbuckets approach to protocal may be having a similar affect.
We are updating docs to recommend the usage of more secure keys ed25519 creating as per the article.
if a manual clone doesnt work it suggests bitbucket doesn't have your public key correctly
Also a more complete debugging command is
runuser -u pe-puppet -- /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/r10k -c /opt/puppetlabs/server/data/code-manager/r10k.yaml deploy environment production --puppetfile --verbose debug2
FOLLOWUP
On investigation we found https://support.puppet.com/hc/en-us/articles/227829007 which showed ssh:// was required at the start of r10k_remote making an example command of ssh://git#bitbucket.org:davidsandilands/control-repo.git
I have requested updates to https://support.puppet.com/hc/en-us/articles/227829007 to highlight this is not a version confined issue and asked for the puppet code manager configuration docs to be updated to reflect this may be required.
I see that you have a .pub file in the ssh directory. I believe it's expecting a private key there.
Also do you have the master class set up to point to your repo inside of Puppet Enterprise web ui?
You'll want to set the following parameters on that class.
code_manager_auto_configure = true
r10k_private_key = $PRIVATE_KEY_IN_SSH_FOLDER_ABSOLUTE_PATH
r10k_remote = Your git URL
The PE Master can be found in Node Groups on the PE Web UI Node Groups -> PE Infrastructure -> PE Master
Thanks to #david-sandilands for helping me resolve this and guiding me to this article via the puppet community slack. Top guy!
EDIT 1:
The solution was documented here: https://support.puppet.com/hc/en-us/articles/227829007-Fix-your-Bitbucket-Stash-Code-Manager-configuration-in-Puppet-Enterprise-2015-3-to-2017-2
However the documentation was out of date as it affected version 2021.4 also.
In short:
r10k_remote = "ssh://git#git.company.com:1234/project/control-repo.git"
Not
r10k_remote = "git#git.company.com:1234/project/control-repo.git"
When working with Bitbucket Server.
EDIT 2:
Puppet have since updated their documentation:
https://puppet.com/docs/pe/2021.5/code_mgr_config.html#code_mgr_enable

Can't attach CircleCI Workspace from Windows to Linux due to "Cannot change ownership to uid 3434"

I am using CircleCI's persistent workspace feature to run jobs with the same build folder between Linux and Windows executor types. I was able to go from Linux to Windows but when I went from Windows to Linux I got this error when CircleCI attempted to attach the workspace.
Applying workspace layers:
9ba3eddc-3658-43c2-858b-aea39250af3e
25c476af-8804-4125-b979-05a62a9ac204
Error applying workspace layer for job 25c476af-8804-4125-b979-05a62a9ac204: Error extracting tarball /tmp/workspace-layer-25c476af-8804-4125-b979-05a62a9ac204854634413 : tar: project/.circleci/config.yml: Cannot change ownership to uid 3434, gid 197121: Invalid argument
Looking at the error it's clear that the UIDs are not existing on the system. I attempted to run commands to create the same UID/GID it was erroring on but I still got an unable to change owner issue.
I was expecting CircleCI to move the files and ignore the user: group part when it was extracted as you can't guarantee the UID/GID exists.
I opened a support ticket but hoping for a faster solution to this issue.
I found a solution to this issue and it's forcing CircleCI to use TAR_OPTIONS environment variable to force the options to ignore the owner/group.
Here is what I added to my jobs steps that attach the workspace when the previous job run was Window.
build-app:
build:
docker:
- image: Dockerhub.com/myrepo/myimage:1.0.0
environment:
TAR_OPTIONS: --no-same-owner
using TAR_OPTIONS environment to inject the option --no-same-owner allowed CircleCI to extract the tarball without issue.

How can I run reaction-next-starterkit of reactioncommerce in Windows?

I've been trying to install and run Reaction Commerce with Reaction Plataform using Windows.
I followed all the steps, however after the make command the reaction-next-starterkit doesn't run (I checked using docker ps), and even trying make start it also doesn't work.
I checked the logs with docker-compose logs -f, and the output doesn't show me many things:
': No such file or directory'sh
reaction-next-starterkit_web_1 exited with code 127
And I tried running with other method, like this:
docker-compose up -d - inside the reaction-next-starterkit folder, but also don't keep that running.
I checked all of the containers (including the not running) and I see all of them.
Accordingly to this issue there is a config of Git in Windows that change some files when you make a git clone of any repo, in that specific case it make some projects to break.
So, the solution was to change the specific configuration:
git config --global core.autocrlf input
Then make clean to delete everything made until now, delete the cloned repository, and start from scratch.

Docker mkimage_yum.sh for centos 7 fails

A little confused at the moment. I've got docker on one my servers and as it doesn't have internet access, I'm trying to build a base image for centos7.4. The nice Docker site has a mkimage_yum.sh script for this purpose, but it consistently fails when it tries running:
yum -c /tmp/mkimage_yum.sh.gnagTv/etc/yum.conf --installroot=/tmp/mkimage_yum.sh.gnagTv -y clean all
with a "No enabled repos" error. The thing is, if I enter "yum repolist" I get back 17 entries, and I have manually tried to set several repos to enabled. Yet, this command still fails, and I do not understand what could be missing.
Anybody have some idea of what I can so this succeeds?
Jay
I figured out why this was failing, the docker file for mkimage_yum.sh does not contain the proper code if you're storing your repos in /etc/yum.repos.d, it assumes that everything is in /etc/yum.conf. This is really not correct, and it causes one of the later yum clean operations to fail. I fixed it, but I cannot upload the change as the server has no internet access.

why does git recommits all files even the ones that I did not change

I am contributing to a project and forked their repository.
I have spent a few days on coding some new features and when I commit my changes to github every single fine gets recommited.... Even if I have not changed the file..
Why is this happening, I am new to vagrant and git.
My workflow is the following:
cd into the project:
/rails_projects/my_project
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
cd /vagrant
*****do some changes here to my code
git add .
git commit -m "asdfsdf"
git push
Is there something I missed with vagrant or git? I am on Windows running the suggested ubuntu virtual box. Maybe I had to create the virtual box in the parent directory instead of in the directory of my project? Or what is the deal? Or am i supposed to run the git commands from a different directory?
Thanks
So what ended up happening was that I had to do
cd ..
To get out of /vagrant file and then also
exit
To get out of vagrant ssh session.
Then I committed to github and everything was fine. Thanks!
To clarify for others.
It looks like you were trying to commit code from within your Vagrant box. As the OP has already found out, you don't want to do this (as the local Git repository is located on your computer, not inside the virtual machine Vagrant manages for you).
Personally, I have a terminal window open for Git and another open for Vagrant. This prevents the issue described in this question.
Bonus tip: If you develop using a Mac, you can hit Command + T whilst in Terminal to open a new tab. It's a shame you can't do this on Windows....

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