diff --git a/het2bcontact.cc b/het2bcontact.cc
index 91449096362a582ee2c7c736be2c48418b499e27..1d284f1569c064e9669e851d32eb00cb10033d71 100644
--- a/het2bcontact.cc
+++ b/het2bcontact.cc
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[]) try
         OperatorType bilinearForm;
         contactAssembler.assembleJacobian(submat, bilinearForm);
 
-        VectorType canonicalTotalX, totalX, totalRhs;
+        VectorType totalX, totalRhs;
 
         contactAssembler.nodalToTransformed(x, totalX);