zed-industries/zed · error

delete password failed: {status}

Error message

delete password failed: {status}

What it means

Guard in delete_credentials: SecItemDelete returned a non-zero OSStatus while removing the internet-password item for the server. {status} is the Security framework code; errSecItemNotFound is common when the credential was already absent.

Source

Thrown at crates/gpui_macos/src/platform.rs:1274

                let password = CFType::wrap_under_get_rule(*password)
                    .downcast::<CFData>()
                    .context("password was not a string")?;

                Ok(Some((username.to_string(), password.bytes().to_vec())))
            }
        })
    }

    fn delete_credentials(&self, url: &str) -> Task<Result<()>> {
        let url = url.to_string();

        self.background_executor().spawn(async move {
            unsafe {
                use security::*;

                let url = CFString::from(url.as_str());
                let mut query_attrs = CFMutableDictionary::with_capacity(2);
                query_attrs.set(kSecClass as *const _, kSecClassInternetPassword as *const _);
                query_attrs.set(kSecAttrServer as *const _, url.as_CFTypeRef());

                let status = SecItemDelete(query_attrs.as_concrete_TypeRef());
                anyhow::ensure!(status == errSecSuccess, "delete password failed: {status}");
            }
            Ok(())
        })
    }
}

unsafe fn path_from_objc(path: id) -> PathBuf {
    let len = msg_send![path, lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding];
    let bytes = unsafe { path.UTF8String() as *const u8 };
    let path = str::from_utf8(unsafe { slice::from_raw_parts(bytes, len) }).unwrap();
    PathBuf::from(path)
}

unsafe fn get_mac_platform(object: &mut Object) -> &MacPlatform {

View on GitHub (pinned to 9d272b0363)

Solutions

1. Treat errSecItemNotFound as success (nothing to delete)
2. Check keychain access/entitlements for permission-related statuses
3. Surface genuine failures so sign-out flows can report that stored credentials remain

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at crates/gpui_macos/src/platform.rs:1242 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of zed-industries/zed@9d272b0363 (2026-08-20). Data as JSON: /api/errors/df22009e9e948435. Report an issue: GitHub.