# shmget() failed

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/shmget-failed/2277
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [July 22, 2019, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/shmget-failed/2277 "2019-07-22T13:35:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Shuai\_Wang](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/shuai_wang/32/1778_2.png) [@Shuai\_Wang](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Shuai_Wang)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2019, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/shmget-failed/2277/1 "2019-07-22T13:35:45Z")

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Hello all,

I have downloaded the recently released paraview version 5.7.0-RC1-MPI-Linux-64bit  
when I open the software, an output message come, which reads:  
QXcbShmImage: shmget() failed (28: No space left on device) for size … (…x…)

what should I do to solve this problem?  
BR

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### Author: ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/shmget-failed/2277/2 "2019-07-22T15:47:00Z")

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Try exporting `QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1` in the environment first. I recommend only doing it where necessary, not unconditionally.

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### Author: ![Shuai\_Wang](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/shuai_wang/32/1778_2.png) [@Shuai\_Wang](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Shuai_Wang)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 8:27am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/shmget-failed/2277/3 "2019-07-23T08:27:49Z")

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I export `QT\_X11\_NO\_MITSHM=1 to bashrc and sourced it.

It does not work.

My GPU is TITAN RTX.

When I try to use the old version of paraview (5.4), no such error appears.