Bug: Unable to create venv in directory, exit Code 3.

[abver090]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues and checked the recent builds/commits

What happened?

This is a Windows 10 64-bit. This error keeps poping up whenever I tried to load the .bat file for the first time. I tried

• Removing the spaces in between the folders the stable-diffusion-webui is stored within
• Running the .bat using Admin privilages

But these just didn't work! Is there any way I can fix this error?

Steps to reproduce the problem

Just start up webui-user.bat.

What should have happened?

The .bat would have loaded up normally and began downloading all the essentials.

Commit where the problem happens

cmd

What platforms do you use to access the UI ?

No response

What browsers do you use to access the UI ?

No response

Command Line Arguments

No

List of extensions

No

Console logs

Creating venv in directory D:\Stable_Diffusion\testing_for_the_last_time\stable-diffusion-webui\venv using python "C:\Users\└эфЁхщ\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe"
Unable to create venv in directory "D:\Stable_Diffusion\testing_for_the_last_time\stable-diffusion-webui\venv"

exit code: 3

stderr:
Системе не удается найти указанный путь.

Launch unsuccessful. Exiting.

Additional information

No response

[mezotaken]

I think it cannot locate the python because of this └эфЁхщ
The easier solution would be to install python in some folder that doesnt have username in its path.
Сбитая кодировка русского в консоли пробрасывается в путь почему-то.

[abver090]

I think it cannot locate the python because of this └эфЁхщ The easier solution would be to install python in some folder that doesnt have username in it's path. Сбитая кодировка русского в консоли пробрасывается в путь почему-то.

So download Python in a folder that isn't in Cyrilic?
Also, I do have another question. Where are the essentials going to be installed? To the insal directory of Stable Diffusion or C: drive? If the latter, then things could go ugly because my PC might not recognize my Cyrilic.

[mezotaken]

Yes, but it's more of a workaround than a solution.
Most of the dependencies will be installed in stable-diffusion-webui/venv, but some transformers models will be at C:\Users\<USERNAME>\.cache\huggingface\transformers, but i think there will be no problems with them because it's not implemented by this repo.

[mezotaken]

Also you can try specifying your python directory in webui-user.bat directly in cyrilic like this:
set PYTHON="C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe" it might just work.

[abver090]

It works! Thanks!

[mezotaken]

stable-diffusion-webui/webui.bat

Line 32 in 00dab8f

for /f "delims=" %%i in ('CALL %PYTHON% -c "import sys; print(sys.executable)"') do set PYTHON_FULLNAME="%%i"

Probably some unescaped characters in this line cause the issue.

[dalemadman]

Reinstall Python in custom install mode with no cyrillic names in path.
For example C:\Python

[doughmonteiro]

Reinstall Python in custom install mode with no cyrillic names in path. For example C:\Python

It solved my problem!