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'nunchaku_versions.json' not found. Node will start in minimal mode. #1066

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@Taruvi

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I get this every time I start the container:

'nunchaku_versions.json' not found. Node will start in minimal mode.

It was installed by Swarm through the little popup when you go to use a Nunchaku model for the first time.

Is it a problem? After looking around for a bit, I can't find any documentation that explains what the differences are between 'minimal mode' vs., I suppose, 'normal mode'.

I'm only using this in the Generate tab. I haven't been trying to use it in the Comfy tab.

When I filter the log for 'nunchaku', I get these lines:

2025-09-26 11:39:13.666 [Debug] [Load ComfyUI Self-Starting #0] Ensure node repos - Will git pull for ComfyUI-nunchaku...
2025-09-26 11:39:23.021 [Debug] [Load ComfyUI Self-Starting #0] Node pull response for ComfyUI-nunchaku: Updating 8beaa0c..8dad5f7
Fast-forward
 README.md                                          |    1 +
 .../nunchaku-qwen-image-edit-2509-lightning.json   | 1205 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 1206 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 example_workflows/nunchaku-qwen-image-edit-2509-lightning.json

From https://github.com/mit-han-lab/ComfyUI-nunchaku
   8beaa0c..8dad5f7  main       -> origin/main
   8beaa0c..8dad5f7  dev        -> origin/dev
2025-09-26 11:42:04.453 [Debug] [ComfyUI-0/STDERR] ======================================== ComfyUI-nunchaku Initialization ========================================
2025-09-26 11:42:04.470 [Debug] [ComfyUI-0/STDERR] Nunchaku version: 1.0.0
2025-09-26 11:42:04.473 [Debug] [ComfyUI-0/STDERR] ComfyUI-nunchaku version: 1.0.1
2025-09-26 11:42:26.968 [Debug] [ComfyUI-0/STDOUT] 'nunchaku_versions.json' not found. Node will start in minimal mode.
2025-09-26 11:42:27.205 [Debug] [ComfyUI-0/STDERR]   22.5 seconds: /config/07-SwarmUI/SwarmUI/src/BuiltinExtensions/ComfyUIBackend/DLNodes/ComfyUI-nunchaku

It's worth saying that Nunchaku models 'work' but the output isn't of the same quality as non-Nunchaku models. Whether or not that's down to this 'minimal mode' or not, I don't know. But because of this quality difference I haven't really tested them much except to see the speed difference. I just don't know if this 'minimal mode' is what's causing the quality difference.

Swarm is fully up to date as of about 40 minutes ago.

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The full verbose log: https://paste.denizenscript.com/View/136327

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