Zed crash while doing search

[flavienbonvin]

Summary

Zed crashed when performing some search on a large monorepo

Description

I'm working at Proton on this monorepo: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients

When doing some search, the application will instantly crash and close. This has happened on multiple Zed versions (both preview and regular). The report concerns Zed 0.186.11.

Steps to trigger the problem:

1. Clone the Proton repo
2. Search for "Mail Subscriptions" in the repo
3. Check "Match whole words"
4. The application crash

Actual Behavior: The application crashes Expected Behavior: the application should not crash

IPS crash file: https://gist.github.com/flavienbonvin/0c77d8a719e9d6436e80890b09183494

Zed Version and System Specs

Zed: v0.186.11 (Zed) OS: macOS 15.4.1 Memory: 36 GiB Architecture: aarch64

Zed.log

2025-05-20T09:37:16+02:00 INFO  [zed] ========== starting zed ==========
2025-05-20T09:37:16+02:00 INFO  [db] Opening main db
2025-05-20T09:37:16+02:00 INFO  [db] Opening main db
2025-05-20T09:37:16+02:00 INFO  [zed] Using git binary path: Some("/Applications/Zed.app/Contents/MacOS/git")
2025-05-20T09:37:16+02:00 INFO  [util] set environment variables from shell:/opt/homebrew/bin/fish, path:/Users/fbonvin/.bun/bin:/Users/fbonvin/.local/bin:/Users/fbonvin/.local/share/nvm/v22.12.0/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin
2025-05-20T09:37:16+02:00 INFO  [prompt_store::prompts] No prompt template overrides directory found at /Users/fbonvin/.config/zed/prompt_overrides. Using built-in prompts.
2025-05-20T09:37:16+02:00 INFO  [assistant_tools::terminal_tool] agent selected bash for terminal tool
2025-05-20T09:37:16+02:00 INFO  [extension_host] extensions updated. loading 10, reloading 0, unloading 0
2025-05-20T09:37:16+02:00 INFO  [db] Opening main db
2025-05-20T09:37:16+02:00 WARN  [theme] Theme "Aura Dark" is using a deprecated style property: scrollbar_thumb.background. Use `scrollbar.thumb.background` instead.
2025-05-20T09:37:17+02:00 WARN  [theme] Theme "Aura Soft Dark (Soft Text)" is using a deprecated style property: scrollbar_thumb.background. Use `scrollbar.thumb.background` instead.
2025-05-20T09:37:17+02:00 WARN  [theme] Theme "Aura Soft Dark" is using a deprecated style property: scrollbar_thumb.background. Use `scrollbar.thumb.background` instead.
2025-05-20T09:37:17+02:00 WARN  [theme] Theme "Aura Dark (Soft Text)" is using a deprecated style property: scrollbar_thumb.background. Use `scrollbar.thumb.background` instead.
2025-05-20T09:37:17+02:00 INFO  [client] set status on client 0: Authenticating
2025-05-20T09:37:17+02:00 INFO  [client] set status on client 127723: Connecting
2025-05-20T09:37:17+02:00 INFO  [db] Opening main db
2025-05-20T09:37:17+02:00 INFO  [project::debugger::breakpoint_store] Finish deserializing breakpoints & initializing breakpoint store
2025-05-20T09:37:17+02:00 INFO  [db] Opening main db
2025-05-20T09:37:17+02:00 INFO  [client] connected to rpc endpoint https://collab.zed.dev/rpc
2025-05-20T09:37:17+02:00 INFO  [project::environment] using project environment variables shell launched in "/Users/fbonvin/Developer/proton/clients". PATH="/Users/fbonvin/.bun/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin:/Users/fbonvin/.bun/bin:/Users/fbonvin/.local/bin:/Users/fbonvin/.local/share/nvm/v22.12.0/bin"
2025-05-20T09:37:17+02:00 INFO  [rpc::peer] add_connection;
2025-05-20T09:37:17+02:00 INFO  [client] set status on client 127723: Connected { peer_id: PeerId { owner_id: 774, id: 201923 }, connection_id: ConnectionId { owner_id: 0, id: 0 } }
2025-05-20T09:38:32+02:00 INFO  [workspace] open paths ["/Users/fbonvin/Library/Logs/Zed/Zed.log"]
2025-05-20T09:38:32+02:00 INFO  [db] Opening main db
2025-05-20T09:38:49+02:00 ERROR [zeta] edit prediction failed

Caused by:
    error predicting edits.
    Status: 500
    Body: INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
2025-05-20T09:39:00+02:00 INFO  [project::prettier_store] Initializing default prettier with plugins {}
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [zed] ========== starting zed ==========
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [db] Opening main db
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [db] Opening main db
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [zed] Using git binary path: Some("/Applications/Zed.app/Contents/MacOS/git")
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [util] set environment variables from shell:/opt/homebrew/bin/fish, path:/Users/fbonvin/.bun/bin:/Users/fbonvin/.local/bin:/Users/fbonvin/.local/share/nvm/v22.12.0/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [prompt_store::prompts] No prompt template overrides directory found at /Users/fbonvin/.config/zed/prompt_overrides. Using built-in prompts.
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [assistant_tools::terminal_tool] agent selected bash for terminal tool
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [extension_host] extensions updated. loading 10, reloading 0, unloading 0
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [db] Opening main db
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 WARN  [theme] Theme "Aura Dark" is using a deprecated style property: scrollbar_thumb.background. Use `scrollbar.thumb.background` instead.
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 WARN  [theme] Theme "Aura Soft Dark (Soft Text)" is using a deprecated style property: scrollbar_thumb.background. Use `scrollbar.thumb.background` instead.
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 WARN  [theme] Theme "Aura Soft Dark" is using a deprecated style property: scrollbar_thumb.background. Use `scrollbar.thumb.background` instead.
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 WARN  [theme] Theme "Aura Dark (Soft Text)" is using a deprecated style property: scrollbar_thumb.background. Use `scrollbar.thumb.background` instead.
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [client] set status on client 0: Authenticating
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [client] set status on client 127723: Connecting
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [db] Opening main db
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [db] Opening main db
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [workspace] open paths ["/Users/fbonvin/Library/Logs/Zed/Zed.log"]
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [db] Opening main db
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [project::debugger::breakpoint_store] Finish deserializing breakpoints & initializing breakpoint store
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [client] connected to rpc endpoint https://collab.zed.dev/rpc
2025-05-20T09:39:05+02:00 INFO  [project::environment] using project environment variables shell launched in "/Users/fbonvin/Developer/proton/clients". PATH="/Users/fbonvin/.bun/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin:/Users/fbonvin/.bun/bin:/Users/fbonvin/.local/bin:/Users/fbonvin/.local/share/nvm/v22.12.0/bin"
2025-05-20T09:39:06+02:00 INFO  [rpc::peer] add_connection;
2025-05-20T09:39:06+02:00 INFO  [client] set status on client 127723: Connected { peer_id: PeerId { owner_id: 774, id: 202863 }, connection_id: ConnectionId { owner_id: 0, id: 0 } }
2025-05-20T09:39:55+02:00 INFO  [worktree] root renamed from /Users/fbonvin/Library/Logs/Zed/Zed.log to /Users/fbonvin/Library/Logs/Zed/search_crash.log
2025-05-20T09:42:41+02:00 INFO  [db] Opening main db

[sami-daniel]

Hello! I'm new here, but I'm interested in contributing. I don't know how hard it is, but I'm willing to give it a try. It seems the problem is somewhere near here. Let me know if there's anything I should know before I start!

[sami-daniel]

I'm not sure about that, but on my Zed Ide (also the same version, but on Linux) the error doesn't occur when doing the same query, under the same project. Maybe something in the settings or something else could have caused this. Is there anything else you can share about your IDE specifically?

[flavienbonvin]

The repo on GitHub is a mirror of the private repo we have at work. Parts of the code are not open-sourced and could cause the issue. That being said, I think that logs could be more helpful than reproducing the issue. I can share logs of crashes as they happen.

For example, I just had a crash when pulling data from the main branch from the integrated terminal.

Here is the log: Zed.log And the IPS log: https://gist.github.com/flavienbonvin/1c9481b99a7af1d1173b05f842f5b657

[notpeter]

I too was unable to reproduce with your steps on a clean repo checkout. I'm assuming there might be some files in the non-public checkout which is triggering the issue.

Would it be possible for you to repeat the search a few times, but only including a single directory so you can bisect to which folders/files might be triggering the issue, ideally isolating to a single file?

[smitbarmase]

@flavienbonvin, could you please provide the .ips file instead? Open the Console app, navigate to the Crash Reports tab, and locate the same crash report you sent as a .txt file above. Right-click on the report to reveal it in the Finder.

[sami-daniel]

Sorry for not responding sooner. Without a clear understanding of the circumstances and occasions, it is difficult to correct the error. As other colleagues have said, it would be clearer if you reproduced the error in other ways.

[flavienbonvin]

@smitbarmase I cannot upload .ips files. This is why I put the content of two crashes in two different gists:

• https://gist.github.com/flavienbonvin/1c9481b99a7af1d1173b05f842f5b657
• https://gist.github.com/flavienbonvin/0c77d8a719e9d6436e80890b09183494

I am not sure how I can share .ips files.

[smitbarmase]

You can follow these steps:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b8fc9ac8-5086-4487-a310-fb51784c4235

[flavienbonvin]

The problem is that the file cannot be uploaded on GitHub.

The two gists contain the whole content of two IPS files.

I uploaded tow of the IPS file here: https://drive.proton.me/urls/FN7Y4F492W#JSubg1ogvsao

[smitbarmase]

We have a script that takes .ips files and shows cleaner and readable crash logs and where they actually occurred. Turning those .txt files to .ips files wasn't working; there might be something more to the .ips format. The drive link you sent will help a lot in debugging this. Thank you!

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