# xcb\_shm\_attach() failed

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/xcb-shm-attach-failed/7479
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [June 24, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/xcb-shm-attach-failed/7479 "2021-06-24T18:08:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Connor\_Morency](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/connor_morency/32/6980_2.png) [@Connor\_Morency](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Connor_Morency)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/xcb-shm-attach-failed/7479/1 "2021-06-24T18:08:47Z")

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Hello,

I recently built two Paraview versions v5.7.0 and v5.8.1 on Debian GNU/Linux 8.11 and have been getting these errors whenever I interact with the GUI:

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8ef78edec13fb4857ac51dbef112d4b09b9ee13f.jpeg)

These errors appear when I try to open a file, move the GUI window, or otherwise interact with the model itself. The errors appear for both versions of Paraview I have built. It seems like the software works fine, but the constantly appearing error messages are quite annoying. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you!

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2021, 8:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/xcb-shm-attach-failed/7479/2 "2021-06-25T08:49:08Z")

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That a new one.

Can you try with our last binary release from: [https://www.paraview.org/download/](https://www.paraview.org/download/) ?

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### Author: ![Connor\_Morency](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/connor_morency/32/6980_2.png) [@Connor\_Morency](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Connor_Morency)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2021, 10:06pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/xcb-shm-attach-failed/7479/3 "2021-06-25T22:06:57Z")

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Hi Mathieu,

I was able to successfully download and run the newest binary release v5.9.1 without any errors. This is encouraging. However, I need to be able to build and use the software from gitlab because my research group has developed plug-ins for Paraview that depend upon the PARAVIEW\_BUILD\_SHARED\_LIBS option in cmake being turned on and reading in the new plugins.

I am wondering if there is a way to just suppress/hide the error message box? Since the software seems to be running fine with the errors, I wonder if just hiding the messages would be the easiest solution.

Thank you!  
Connor

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/xcb-shm-attach-failed/7479/4 "2021-06-27T17:23:06Z")

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Just dock the window somewhere and ignore it ?