Zed only runs as root in arch linux

[vinifrancosilva]

Summary

Zed only runs as root in arch linux

I tested 3 forms of install.

• The script provided by documentation
• pacman package
• flatpak package

Runs normally as root but gives me this error when run by user:

2025-03-13T16:55:03-03:00 ERROR zed::reliability] {
  "thread": "main",
  "payload": "called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: PlatformNotSupported",
  "location_data": {
    "file": "crates/gpui/src/platform/blade/blade_renderer.rs",
    "line": 344
  },
  "backtrace": [
    "__libc_start_main+38777593488716"
  ],
  "app_version": "0.176.3",
  "release_channel": "stable",
  "target": "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu",
  "os_name": "Linux Wayland",
  "os_version": "arch unknown",
  "architecture": "x86_64",
  "panicked_on": 1741895703192,
  "system_id": "f80c076f-1102-4fd9-8960-b013e6c8dee3",
  "installation_id": "2a17db24-fbbc-4405-b05a-2dfaf8783a9c",
  "session_id": "9524bc92-081b-4fc6-b148-eee59ceb9b2a"
}

vulkan is ok, vkcube is running by the user

Zed Version and System Specs

Not applicable by user

If applicable, attach your ~/Library/Logs/Zed/Zed.log file to this issue.

Zed.log

2025-03-13T17:03:54.048740167-03:00 [INFO] ========== starting zed ==========
2025-03-13T17:03:59.020265202-03:00 [INFO] Presentation support: "VK_KHR_wayland_surface"
2025-03-13T17:03:59.029787482-03:00 [INFO] Presentation support: "VK_KHR_xcb_surface"
2025-03-13T17:03:59.02985136-03:00 [INFO] Presentation support: "VK_KHR_xlib_surface"
2025-03-13T17:03:59.029920302-03:00 [INFO] Enabling Vulkan Portability
2025-03-13T17:03:59.029988815-03:00 [INFO] Enabling color space support
2025-03-13T17:03:59.110647924-03:00 [INFO] Adapter: "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650"
2025-03-13T17:03:59.110912946-03:00 [INFO] No ray tracing extensions are supported
2025-03-13T17:03:59.285045318-03:00 [INFO] perform;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.285441815-03:00 [INFO] authenticate;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.285849612-03:00 [INFO] read_command;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.309835563-03:00 [INFO] send_secondary_commands;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.310972746-03:00 [INFO] new;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.311263501-03:00 [INFO] socket reader;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.311445012-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.311637938-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.312429893-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.312844238-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.313432461-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.314363216-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.314592581-03:00 [INFO] keep_updated;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.317757161-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.319677778-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.321463916-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.321819501-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.322189415-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.322500448-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.322807345-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.323173561-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.32338933-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.409963274-03:00 [INFO] Opening main db
2025-03-13T17:03:59.439980065-03:00 [INFO] Opening main db
2025-03-13T17:03:59.447650317-03:00 [INFO] Using git binary path: None
2025-03-13T17:03:59.664876734-03:00 [INFO] No prompt template overrides directory found at /home/vini/.local/share/zed/prompt_overrides. Using built-in prompts.
2025-03-13T17:03:59.723203803-03:00 [INFO] activate is not implemented on Linux, ignoring the call
2025-03-13T17:03:59.732119379-03:00 [INFO] Opening main db
2025-03-13T17:03:59.732649165-03:00 [INFO] perform;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.732843806-03:00 [INFO] authenticate;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.733084964-03:00 [INFO] read_command;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.733300717-03:00 [INFO] send_secondary_commands;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.734194156-03:00 [INFO] socket reader;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.734393833-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.734615656-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.739989183-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.742960127-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.743793906-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.744437773-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.744653483-03:00 [INFO] new;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.745217882-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.745690405-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.746177266-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.747353229-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.747665117-03:00 [INFO] keep_updated;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.748723117-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.749212787-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.749648508-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.762994006-03:00 [INFO] set status on client 0: Authenticating
2025-03-13T17:03:59.763334181-03:00 [INFO] perform;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.763449235-03:00 [INFO] authenticate;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.763561297-03:00 [INFO] read_command;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.763692712-03:00 [INFO] send_secondary_commands;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.764110641-03:00 [INFO] socket reader;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.764238442-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.764359484-03:00 [WARN] Rejected for not presenting to the window surface
2025-03-13T17:03:59.764966368-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.76781123-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.769360424-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.769748236-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.770045956-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.770122179-03:00 [INFO] new;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.770322365-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.770484744-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.77063994-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.770895421-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.771001782-03:00 [INFO] keep_updated;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.771426653-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.771572946-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.771708149-03:00 [INFO] read_socket;
2025-03-13T17:03:59.800246451-03:00 [INFO] set environment variables from shell:/usr/bin/nu, path:/home/vini/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/home/vini/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/home/vini/.duckdb/cli/latest:/home/vini/go/bin:/home/vini/.duckdb/cli/latest:/home/vini/go/bin
2025-03-13T17:03:59.802005171-03:00 [ERROR] {
  "thread": "main",
  "payload": "called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: PlatformNotSupported",
  "location_data": {
    "file": "crates/gpui/src/platform/blade/blade_renderer.rs",
    "line": 344
  },
  "backtrace": [
    "__libc_start_main+29607036904780"
  ],
  "app_version": "0.176.3",
  "release_channel": "stable",
  "target": "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu",
  "os_name": "Linux Wayland",
  "os_version": "arch unknown",
  "architecture": "x86_64",
  "panicked_on": 1741896239801,
  "system_id": "f80c076f-1102-4fd9-8960-b013e6c8dee3",
  "installation_id": "2a17db24-fbbc-4405-b05a-2dfaf8783a9c",
  "session_id": "7ed1894e-3bd1-4563-9514-3088a750b13d"
}

[danielgafni]

Had the same error from nightly on NixOS (flake) with Wayland

[probably-neb]

Hey, I run arch as well and I haven't had this happen to me. I'm going to look into how we could be misidentifying the platform, and thinking we don't support it. Thanks for reporting!

[vinifrancosilva]

Hey, I run arch as well and I haven't had this happen to me. I'm going to look into how we could be misidentifying the platform, and thinking we don't support it. Thanks for reporting!

Let me know if you guys need more information from my end

[danielgafni]

Possibly related: #26905

[probably-neb]

Not much progress as of yet, but I have determined that the panic actually stems from the warning (?) Rejected for not presenting to the window surface which stems from the call to this function in the ash crate which blade depends on.

From my research it seems like this is likely a permissions issue due to Wayland security rules which would explain why it works as root but not as non-root.
Could you try

• Running vulkaninfo --summary (as user vs. root)
• Looking into how to view system logs for your compositor with journalctl to check for permission errors after Zed panics
• Looking into kernel logs dmesg | grep drm to check for DRM/KMS device errors

I'm not super familiar with Wayland so I don't know how useful any of the above will be, but based on my research it seems unlikely this is a Zed issue. Willing to be proven wrong though!

[probably-neb]

Actually, Immediately eating my words. Seems like this is a known issue as described in #25899 and introduced (and discussed) in #20853.
I'm going to mark this as a duplicate of the other issue, and we should continue the conversation there