You're right, setcap was the issue. The fix was:

sudo setcap cap_net_raw+ep /opt/ros/electric/stacks/
orocos_toolchain/ocl/bin/deployer-gnulinux

Thanks for the help!

Ian

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:59 AM, gianni borghesan <
Gianni [dot] Borghesan [..] ...> wrote:

> Hi Jan,
> Did you
> sudo setcap cap_net_raw+ep /location/of/deployer-gnulinux
> on the deployer of ROS electric?
> (probably
> /opt/ros/electric/stacks/orocos_toolchain/ocl/bin/deployer-gnulinux)
>
>
> Il giorno mar, 17/01/2012 alle 18.06 +0000, ian [dot] j [dot] sherman [..] ... ha
> scritto:
> > After upgrade to ROS Electric, SoemMaster.configure() is failing with the
> > following error:
> >
> >
> > Deployer [S]> SoemMaster.configure()
> > creation of socket failed:-1
> > 16.285 [ ERROR ][SoemMaster] Could not initialize master on ecat0
> > = false
> >
> >
> > slaveinfo and simple_test, however, work fine:
> >
> >
> > Starting slaveinfo
> > ec_init on ecat0 succeeded.
> > 3 slaves found and configured.
> > ...
> >
> >
> > I am using the electric branch of SOEM from
> > http://git.mech.kuleuven.be/robotics/soem.git
> >
> > Any idea what's going on, or how best to troubleshoot?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ian
>
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