Unable to launch ZED Depth Viewer tools: [ZED][ERROR] [ZED] The camera could not be initialized. Please verify your camera connection and configuration

Description

Unable to successfully start the ZED tool - depth viewer. ZED Diagnoistic and Explorer can be launch without issue. All tests are passed.

System:

  1. Ubuntu 24 Desktop
  2. Docker

Procedures

  1. docker pull stereolabs/zed:5.4-gl-devel-cuda12.8-ubuntu24.04

  2. docker run -it --rm
    –runtime nvidia
    –gpus all
    –privileged
    -e DISPLAY
    -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix
    -v /dev:/dev
    -v /usr/local/zed/resources:/usr/local/zed/resources
    $IMAGE

  3. run ./tools/ZED_Depth_Viewer

Console Log

root@bbb72dcf7e61:/usr/local/zed# ./tools/ZED_Depth_Viewer
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root'
[2026-07-12 08:27:44 UTC][ZED][INFO] Logging level INFO
[2026-07-12 08:27:47 UTC][ZED][INFO] Using USB input... Switched to default resolution HD720
[2026-07-12 08:27:48 UTC][ZED][ERROR] [ZED] The camera could not be initialized. Please verify your camera connection and configuration.
[2026-07-12 08:27:48 UTC][ZED][INFO] [Init]  Failed to open camera. Trying to re-open for 3 seconds.
[2026-07-12 08:27:48 UTC][ZED][INFO] [Init]  Random wait interval before consecutive openings: [250], [1500] msec.
[2026-07-12 08:27:50 UTC][ZED][INFO] [Init]  Waiting 293 msec before next opening attempt.
[2026-07-12 08:27:50 UTC][ZED][INFO] [Init]  Trying to force a device reboot to recover the video module.
[2026-07-12 08:27:52 UTC][ZED][INFO] [Init]  Camera opening timeout reached.
[2026-07-12 08:27:52 UTC][ZED][ERROR] CAMERA FAILED TO SETUP in sl::ERROR_CODE sl::Camera::open(sl::InitParameters)
[2026-07-12 08:27:53 UTC][ZED][INFO] Logging level INFO
[2026-07-12 08:27:57 UTC][ZED][INFO] Using USB input... Switched to default resolution HD720
[2026-07-12 08:27:58 UTC][ZED][ERROR] [ZED] The camera could not be initialized. Please verify your camera connection and configuration.
[2026-07-12 08:27:58 UTC][ZED][INFO] [Init]  Failed to open camera. Trying to re-open for 3 seconds.
[2026-07-12 08:27:58 UTC][ZED][INFO] [Init]  Random wait interval before consecutive openings: [250], [1500] msec.
[2026-07-12 08:27:59 UTC][ZED][INFO] [Init]  Waiting 883 msec before next opening attempt.
[2026-07-12 08:28:00 UTC][ZED][INFO] [Init]  Trying to force a device reboot to recover the video module.
^C
root@bbb72dcf7e61:/usr/local/zed# lsusb -d 2b03: -v | grep bcdUSB
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bcdUSB               3.00
root@bbb72dcf7e61:/usr/local/zed# lsusb -t
/:  Bus 001.Port 001: Dev 001, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/10p, 480M
    |__ Port 001: Dev 012, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=[none], 12M
    |__ Port 006: Dev 002, If 0, Class=Vendor Specific Class, Driver=[none], 12M
    |__ Port 006: Dev 002, If 2, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M
    |__ Port 007: Dev 003, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/4p, 480M
        |__ Port 003: Dev 005, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M
    |__ Port 009: Dev 004, If 0, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
    |__ Port 009: Dev 004, If 1, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
    |__ Port 009: Dev 004, If 2, Class=Audio, Driver=snd-usb-audio, 480M
    |__ Port 009: Dev 004, If 3, Class=Audio, Driver=snd-usb-audio, 480M
/:  Bus 002.Port 001: Dev 001, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/4p, 10000M
    |__ Port 001: Dev 003, If 0, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 5000M
    |__ Port 001: Dev 003, If 1, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 5000M
/:  Bus 003.Port 001: Dev 001, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/4p, 480M
    |__ Port 001: Dev 002, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M
    |__ Port 001: Dev 002, If 1, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M
    |__ Port 001: Dev 002, If 2, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M
    |__ Port 003: Dev 003, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M
    |__ Port 003: Dev 003, If 1, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M
/:  Bus 004.Port 001: Dev 001, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/4p, 10000M
root@bbb72dcf7e61:/usr/local/zed#