ComfyUI fails to start with a `RuntimeError` due to a CUDA version mismatch between PyTorch and TorchAudio.

[sekharbinyan]

Bug: TorchAudio/PyTorch CUDA version mismatch in v0.24.0

Describe the bug
ComfyUI fails to start with a RuntimeError due to a CUDA version mismatch between PyTorch and TorchAudio.

Error

RuntimeError: Detected that PyTorch and TorchAudio were compiled with different CUDA versions.
PyTorch has CUDA version 13.0 whereas TorchAudio has CUDA version 12.8.
Please install the TorchAudio version that matches your PyTorch version.

Full traceback path

main.py -> execution.py -> latent_preview.py -> comfy/sd.py
  -> comfy/ldm/lightricks/vae/audio_vae.py -> torchaudio

Environment

• Image: ghcr.io/clsferguson/comfyui-docker:v0.24.0
• GPU: NVIDIA A40
• PyTorch version (inside container): 2.12.0+cu130
• TorchAudio CUDA version: 12.8

Root cause
The image appears to have been built with PyTorch from the cu130 (nightly) wheel index, but TorchAudio was pulled from the cu128 stable index. These need to match.

Per the repo README, the intended base is CUDA 12.8 with PyTorch from the cu128 wheel index — so either PyTorch was inadvertently upgraded to a nightly cu130 build, or TorchAudio was not updated to match.

Workaround
Manually reinstalling a matching TorchAudio nightly inside the running container resolves the issue:

docker exec -it ComfyUI-latest bash -c \
  "pip install --upgrade --pre torchaudio \
   --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cu130"
docker restart ComfyUI-latest

Expected behavior
PyTorch and TorchAudio should be pinned to the same CUDA version at build time so the container starts without errors.

Steps to reproduce

1. Pull ghcr.io/clsferguson/comfyui-docker:v0.24.0
2. Start the container
3. Observe the RuntimeError in container logs

[JoeGaffney]

This is more for whoever authored the container - possibly if they have a github for it and you can ask them to take a look.

Actually seen its a fork which trys to add docker support. This is not the best way to make a docker container also. It should pull the comfyUI repo in the dockerfile and build this way.