# problem building paraview on centos 8.4

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problem-building-paraview-on-centos-8-4/8124
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [October 4, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problem-building-paraview-on-centos-8-4/8124 "2021-10-04T20:01:12Z")
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### Author: ![marco](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@marco](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/marco)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problem-building-paraview-on-centos-8-4/8124/1 "2021-10-04T20:01:12Z")

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I am trying to build paraview and am seeing the following error.  
I have no idea where the problem lies. It seems almost complete.

[15965/19602] Running cpp protocol buffer compiler on vtkPVMessage.proto  
FAILED: Remoting/ServerManager/vtkPVMessage.pb.h Remoting/ServerManager/vtkPVMessage.pb.cc  
cd /home/ma/ParaView-v5.9.1/build\_gcc8.4.1/Remoting/ServerManager && /home/ma/ParaView-v5.9.1/build\_gcc8.4.1/bin/vtkprotoc-pv5.9 --cpp\_out dllexport\_decl=VTKREMOTINGSERVERMANAGER\_EXPORT:/home/ma/ParaView-v5.9.1/build\_gcc8.4.1/Remoting/ServerManager -I /home/ma/ParaView-v5.9.1/Remoting/ServerManager /home/ma/ParaView-v5.9.1/Remoting/ServerManager/vtkPVMessage.proto  
terminate called after throwing an instance of ‘std::system\_error’  
what(): Unknown error -1  
[15998/19602] Building CXX object VTK/Accelerators/Vtkm/Filters/CMakeFiles/AcceleratorsVTKmFilters.dir/vtkmClip.cxx.o  
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

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### Author: ![marco](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@marco](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/marco)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2021, 1:34am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problem-building-paraview-on-centos-8-4/8124/2 "2021-10-05T01:34:37Z")

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worked around this problem by installing protoc and not using the build from paraview.