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[CI] Segfaults in CI with ROS2 Humble unit testsΒ #759

@Juliaj

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@Juliaj

Problem
I've seen more CI failures on humble during recent runs due to segfault. After initial looking, it appears that the segfaults were around rclpy.executors._wait_for_ready_callbacks which may be due to freqent rclpy.init()/rclpy.shutdown() cycles. The backtrace shows executor threads accessing ROS2 resources during shutdown.

Potential cause

CI tests have function-scoped ros_setup fixture causes multiple init/shutdown cycles per test run, triggering race conditions in Humble's C++ layer.

Potential fix

Change fixture scope to session: Update ros_setup and ros2_context fixtures from scope="function"/scope="module" to scope="session" to reduce init/shutdown cycles.

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