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Since you are following your tutorial from : http://wiki.ros.org/rviz/Tutorials/Markers%3A%20Basic%20Shapes

Just remove the slash('/') in my_frame, i.e, change this in your src/basic_shapes.cpp

47     marker.header.frame_id = "/my_frame";

changed to

47     marker.header.frame_id = "my_frame";

This fixed the issue for me. Hope it does for you too.

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