rosrun does not appear to do anything. Node exits immediately

I have a ROS node that seems to exit immediately or not even run at all. I have test print statements before the main loop and it never seems to get to that point. roscore is running and no error messages appear in the terminal window.

#include <ros/ros.h> #include <iostream> #define ROS_LOOP_RATE 2000 int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { std::cout << "TEST1\n"; ros::init(argc, argv, "network_wdg_node"); std::cout << "TEST2\n"; ros::NodeHandle wdgNodeHandle("~"); std::cout << "TEST3\n"; ros::Rate loop_rate(ROS_LOOP_RATE); std::cout << "TEST4\n"; while(ros::ok()) { std::cout << "INSIDE LOOP\n"; ros::spinOnce(); loop_rate.sleep(); } return 0; } 

Here's my terminal output:

[rosrun] Looking in catkin libexec dirs: /home/catkin_ws/devel/lib/test /home/catkin_ws/devel/share/test /home/catkin_ws/src/test [rosrun] Looking in rospack dir: /home/catkin_ws/src/test [rosrun] Searching for network_wdg_node with permissions /111 [rosrun] Running /home/catkin_ws/devel/lib/network_wdg/test_node 

I can't seem to figure out why the node doesn't start running or even get to the first debug statement.