Error while deserializing header: MetadataIncompleteBuffer

[mmehrle]

This keeps happening on Google Colab when attempting to pre-load a model:

Also happens when I run it via temp storage:

2023-09-02 14:29:58,614 - ControlNet - INFO - ControlNet v1.1.313 ControlNet preprocessor location: /content/gdrive/MyDrive/sd/stable-diffusion-webui/extensions/sd-webui-controlnet/annotator/downloads 2023-09-02 14:30:04,935 - ControlNet - INFO - ControlNet v1.1.313 Loading weights [463d6a9fe8] from /content/gdrive/MyDrive/sd/stable-diffusion-webui/models/Stable-diffusion/absolutereality_v181.safetensors loading stable diffusion model: SafetensorError Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.10/threading.py", line 973, in _bootstrap self._bootstrap_inner() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/threading.py", line 1016, in _bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/threading.py", line 953, in run self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs) File "/content/gdrive/MyDrive/sd/stable-diffusion-webui/modules/initialize.py", line 147, in load_model shared.sd_model # noqa: B018 File "/content/gdrive/MyDrive/sd/stable-diffusion-webui/modules/shared_items.py", line 110, in sd_model return modules.sd_models.model_data.get_sd_model() File "/content/gdrive/MyDrive/sd/stable-diffusion-webui/modules/sd_models.py", line 499, in get_sd_model load_model() File "/content/gdrive/MyDrive/sd/stable-diffusion-webui/modules/sd_models.py", line 584, in load_model state_dict = get_checkpoint_state_dict(checkpoint_info, timer) File "/content/gdrive/MyDrive/sd/stable-diffusion-webui/modules/sd_models.py", line 315, in get_checkpoint_state_dict res = read_state_dict(checkpoint_info.filename) File "/content/gdrive/MyDrive/sd/stable-diffusion-webui/modules/sd_models.py", line 291, in read_state_dict pl_sd = safetensors.torch.load_file(checkpoint_file, device=device) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/safetensors/torch.py", line 259, in load_file with safe_open(filename, framework="pt", device=device) as f: safetensors_rust.SafetensorError: Error while deserializing header: MetadataIncompleteBuffer

[djpirra]

Any solution for this?

[satya77]

same here