All I get is the loading cursor and it goes away but it doesn’t launch a window or anything. I’ve looked up the issue and was led to github. I’ve tried/installed intel-vulkan and extra/vulkan-mesa-layers + restarted and tried launching Zed again afterward, but still it won’t launch.
opened 06:28PM - 16 Jul 24 UTC
closed 09:13PM - 18 Jul 24 UTC
defect
workspace
linux
### Check for existing issues
- [X] Completed
### Describe the bug / provi… de steps to reproduce it
When I try to install zed either through the official Arch repos or using the command provided on the website, the installation succeeds but when I try to open up Zed through icon or the terminal it doesn't do anything. No error code or anything, just doesn't open.
### Environment
Unable to because the app itself isn't running. I'm on an E15 Gen4 Thinkpad running EndeavourOS with a ryzen CPU and a radeon GPU with all the drivers installed and configured correctly.
### If applicable, add mockups / screenshots to help explain present your vision of the feature
Trying to run zed through the terminal:

### If applicable, attach your Zed.log file to this issue.
<details><summary>Zed.log</summary><pre>
2024-07-16T21:20:27.645600093+03:00 [INFO] ========== starting zed ==========
2024-07-16T21:20:28.218917882+03:00 [INFO] perform;
2024-07-16T21:20:28.2193447+03:00 [INFO] read_command;
2024-07-16T21:20:28.219647937+03:00 [INFO] read_command;
2024-07-16T21:20:28.219876262+03:00 [INFO] Opening main db
2024-07-16T21:20:28.220487724+03:00 [INFO] socket reader;
2024-07-16T21:20:28.221193155+03:00 [INFO] new;
2024-07-16T21:20:28.223910237+03:00 [INFO] keep_updated;
2024-07-16T21:20:28.236321991+03:00 [INFO] Using git binary path: None
2024-07-16T21:20:28.321152949+03:00 [INFO] activate is not implemented on Linux, ignoring the call
2024-07-16T21:20:28.321530289+03:00 [INFO] Opening main db
2024-07-16T21:20:28.361021276+03:00 [INFO] set environment variables from shell:/bin/zsh, path:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/
vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/home/youn/.local/bin
2024-07-16T21:20:28.383684638+03:00 [INFO] perform;
2024-07-16T21:20:28.383987234+03:00 [INFO] read_command;
2024-07-16T21:20:28.384238671+03:00 [INFO] read_command;
2024-07-16T21:20:28.38460873+03:00 [INFO] socket reader;
2024-07-16T21:20:28.434364614+03:00 [INFO] Enabling Vulkan Portability
2024-07-16T21:20:28.454475952+03:00 [ERROR] DBus error service error org.freedesktop.zbus.Error: The name is not activatable
2024-07-16T21:20:28.582836593+03:00 [INFO] rebuilt extension index in 1.628913ms
2024-07-16T21:20:30.833652463+03:00 [INFO] Node runtime install_if_needed
2024-07-16T21:20:31.433823774+03:00 [INFO] Enabling Vulkan Portability
2024-07-16T21:20:31.640142734+03:00 [INFO] starting language server. binary path: "/home/youn/.local/share/zed/node/node-v18.15.0-linux-x64/bin/node", working directory: "/", args: ["/home/youn/.local/share/zed/copilot/copilot-v0.5.0/dist/agent.js", "--stdio"]
2024-07-16T21:20:32.618214477+03:00 [INFO] Language server with id 0 sent unhandled notification LogMessage:
{
"level": 0,
"message": "[DEBUG] [agent] [2024-07-16T18:20:32.608Z] Agent service starting",
"metadataStr": "[DEBUG] [agent] [2024-07-16T18:20:32.608Z]",
"extra": [
"Agent service starting"
]
}
2024-07-16T21:20:32.623194364+03:00 [INFO] Language server with id 0 sent unhandled notification client/registerCapability:
{
"registrations": [
{
"id": "4fb3966e-bd64-419b-88de-f1f4f9e6738a",
"method": "workspace/didChangeWorkspaceFolders",
"registerOptions": {}
}
]
}
2024-07-16T21:20:32.706489688+03:00 [INFO] Language server with id 0 sent unhandled notification LogMessage:
{
"level": 0,
"message": "[DEBUG] [agent] [2024-07-16T18:20:32.638Z] Telemetry initialized",
"metadataStr": "[DEBUG] [agent] [2024-07-16T18:20:32.638Z]",
"extra": [
"Telemetry initialized"
]
}
2024-07-16T21:20:35.377931626+03:00 [INFO] Enabling Vulkan Portability
</pre></details>
eso
October 11, 2024, 8:46am
2
Morning @ChristineLvX89 ,
My second attempt was
yay zed
1
3
on wayland no Nvidia and seems to work.
yay vulkan | grep Installed
23 extra/qt6-shadertools 6.7.3-1 (1.5 MiB 4.5 MiB) [qt6] (Installed)
20 extra/spirv-tools 2024.2-1 (1.6 MiB 6.6 MiB) [vulkan-devel] (Installed)
10 extra/vulkan-icd-loader 1.3.295-1 (143.2 KiB 545.4 KiB) (Installed)
2 extra/vulkan-tools 1.3.269-1 (274.7 KiB 1.4 MiB) [vulkan-devel] (Installed)
3 extra/vulkan-intel 1:24.2.4-1 (4.6 MiB 35.8 MiB) (Installed)
1 extra/vulkan-headers 1:1.3.295-1 (1.2 MiB 26.3 MiB) [vulkan-devel] (Installed)
but I haven’t installed them separately.