EndeavourOS (Arch based Distro) requires Zed to be run as Sudo

[Mondrethos]

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I talked to Cirwin on Discord who helped me troubleshoot the issue. Both the arch repo version and the official tarball version both require Zed to be run via sudo or it crashes with a Protocol error 0.

Environment

EndeavourOS GPU: 7900XT

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[Daniel-Boll]

I'm in EndeavourOS too and downloading through the CLI curl https://zed.dev/install.sh | sh doesn't require this. Haven't tried AUR repo yet.

[mikayla-maki]

Screenshot from this user in discord:

[crnobog69]

I have the same problem on EndeavourOS. I installed Zed in every possible way but it crashes and only open with sudo.

[apricotbucket28]

Screenshot from this user in discord:

• This seems to be the same issue as https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/13880

@Mondrethos are you using AMDVLK? Could you try switching to RADV / Mesa drivers?

[Mondrethos]

I have the same problem on EndeavourOS. I installed Zed in every possible way but it crashes and only open with sudo.

I switched to the mesa drivbers and the issue is gone. It seems like during installing lutris or steam, I accidently pulled AMDGPU which takes over the vulkan-loader. do yay -R amdvlk lib32-amdvlk and reboot.

Make sure you have all the mesa/vulkan loader stuff installed as per the wiki. I can link it here if you need me to.

[crnobog69]

I have the same problem on EndeavourOS. I installed Zed in every possible way but it crashes and only open with sudo.

I switched to the mesa drivbers and the issue is gone. It seems like during installing lutris or steam, I accidently pulled AMDGPU which takes over the vulkan-loader. do yay -R amdvlk lib32-amdvlk and reboot.

Make sure you have all the mesa/vulkan loader stuff installed as per the wiki. I can link it here if you need me to.

Thank you. Now it works.

[Mondrethos]

I have the same problem on EndeavourOS. I installed Zed in every possible way but it crashes and only open with sudo.

I switched to the mesa drivbers and the issue is gone. It seems like during installing lutris or steam, I accidently pulled AMDGPU which takes over the vulkan-loader. do yay -R amdvlk lib32-amdvlk and reboot. Make sure you have all the mesa/vulkan loader stuff installed as per the wiki. I can link it here if you need me to.

Thank you. Now it works.

No problem. I will still leave the report open beacuse a lot of people use the AMDGPU drivers.

[143mailliw]

As I mentioned in the Discord, this is an issue with the AMDGPU Vulkan driver, and not Zed. Apparently, it was supposed to be fixed by AMD, but evidently it isn't.

The issue (recently reopened) is here: https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/issues/351

[Om-Thorat]

I don't have amdvlk installed and yet face the same problem, with nvidia drivers. Zed runs only when using sudo.

[143mailliw]

I don't have amdvlk installed and yet face the same problem, with nvidia drivers. Zed runs only when using sudo.

Can you post the output of zeditor --foreground and vulkaninfo?

[Om-Thorat]

I don't have amdvlk installed and yet face the same problem, with nvidia drivers. Zed runs only when using sudo.

Can you post the output of zeditor --foreground and vulkaninfo?

❯ ~/.local/bin/zed --foreground .
error opening [PathLikeWithPosition { path_like: "/home/om/intern/landing", row: None, column: None }]: NoSupportedDeviceFound

Vulkaninfo output

https://pastebin.com/gceJeYaV

[143mailliw]

@Om-Thorat Could you put the vulkaninfo output in pastebin or a GitHub Gist and edit your post to link to that instead? Right now your comment is super long.

[MaxThom]

Switched to radv and issue fixed. Also using endearvour os. Thanks team.