Common issues

macOS error: “App is damaged and can’t be opened”

The binary is likely from before macOS binaries started being signed. A up-to-date and signed binary may be downloaded from the download page. The unsigned binary can be made to run by running xattr -cr /Applications/Pulsar.app/ in the terminal.

See here for more information.

Pulsar does not launch on Linux: “GPU process isn’t usable. Goodbye”

You may need to launch the application with the argument --no-sandbox to get around this issue. This is something under investigation.

Linux error: TypeError: Unable to watch path

If you’re on Linux and you get the following error soon after Pulsar starts…

TypeError: Unable to watch path

…you might need to increase the maximum number of watched files allowed by inotify.

To test this theory, run

sudo sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches=32768

and restart Pulsar.

If Pulsar now works fine, you can make this setting permanent:

echo 32768 | sudo tee -a /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches