zed-industries/zed · error

Failed to kill process

Error message

Failed to kill process

What it means

In DockerRemoteConnection::kill_inner: spawning the `kill` command for the proxy process PID failed (the spawn itself errored), so the old proxy could not be terminated before a new connection attempt.

Source

Thrown at crates/remote/src/transport/docker.rs:650

                        {
                            return Err(e);
                        } else {
                            anyhow::bail!("Neither curl nor wget is available");
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        Ok(())
    }

    fn kill_inner(&self) -> Result<()> {
        if let Some(pid) = self.proxy_process.lock().take() {
            if let Ok(_) = util::command::new_command("kill")
                .arg(pid.to_string())
                .spawn()
            {
                Ok(())
            } else {
                Err(anyhow::anyhow!("Failed to kill process"))
            }
        } else {
            Ok(())
        }
    }
}

#[async_trait(?Send)]
impl RemoteConnection for DockerExecConnection {
    fn has_wsl_interop(&self) -> bool {
        false
    }
    fn start_proxy(
        &self,
        unique_identifier: String,
        reconnect: bool,

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Solutions

1. Manually kill the leftover proxy process inside the container
2. Retry connecting; a new container may work

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at crates/remote/src/transport/docker.rs:637 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of zed-industries/zed@5a9b9558db (2026-08-20). Data as JSON: /api/errors/225420a6f2bffb56. Report an issue: GitHub.