Can't Launching ComfyUI Package After Updates of ComfyUI and StabilityMatrix #1428

Package

ComfyUI

When did the issue occur?

Installing the Package

What GPU / hardware type are you using?

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

What happened?

I am experiencing difficulties launching the ComfyUI package following the recent updates to both ComfyUI and StabilityMatrix. After the updates, the application fails to start, and I am encountering this errors in the console output : TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object [W1018 09:08:28.000000000 AllocatorConfig.cpp:28] Warning: PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF is deprecated, use PYTORCH_ALLOC_CONF instead (function operator ())

Now upon launch, the application fails to start as intended, and the console output provides those log below.

I likely created conflicts because the updates for Stability Matrix and ComfyUI occurred at the same time while I was already using ComfyUI. I do not want to reinstall the package to avoid losing my workflow configurations.

Console output

[START] Security scan
[DONE] Security scan

ComfyUI-Manager: installing dependencies done.

** ComfyUI startup time: 2025-10-18 09:07:10.345
** Platform: Windows
** Python version: 3.10.11 (tags/v3.10.11:7d4cc5a, Apr 5 2023, 00:38:17) [MSC v.1929 64 bit (AMD64)]
** Python executable: C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\venv\Scripts\python.exe
** ComfyUI Path: C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI
** ComfyUI Base Folder Path: C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI
** User directory: C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\user
** ComfyUI-Manager config path: C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\user\default\ComfyUI-Manager\config.ini
** Log path: C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\user\comfyui.log
[ComfyUI-Manager] 'numpy' dependency were fixed

Prestartup times for custom nodes:
0.0 seconds: C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\custom_nodes\rgthree-comfy
0.0 seconds: C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\custom_nodes\comfyui-easy-use
30.2 seconds: C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\custom_nodes\ComfyUI-Manager

Checkpoint files will always be loaded safely.
Total VRAM 8192 MB, total RAM 32726 MB
pytorch version: 2.9.0+cu126
Set vram state to: NORMAL_VRAM
Device: cuda:0 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 : cudaMallocAsync
Using split optimization for attention
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\main.py", line 149, in
import execution
File "C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\execution.py", line 16, in
import nodes
File "C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\nodes.py", line 24, in
import comfy.diffusers_load
File "C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\comfy\diffusers_load.py", line 3, in
import comfy.sd
File "C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\comfy\sd.py", line 32, in
from . import model_detection
File "C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\comfy\model_detection.py", line 2, in
import comfy.supported_models
File "C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\comfy\supported_models.py", line 5, in
from . import sd1_clip
File "C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\comfy\sd1_clip.py", line 3, in
from transformers import CLIPTokenizer
File "C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\venv\lib\site-packages\transformers_init_.py", line 27, in
from . import dependency_versions_check
File "C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\venv\lib\site-packages\transformers\dependency_versions_check.py", line 16, in
from .utils.versions import require_version, require_version_core
File "C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\venv\lib\site-packages\transformers\utils_init_.py", line 24, in
from .auto_docstring import (
File "C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\venv\lib\site-packages\transformers\utils\auto_docstring.py", line 30, in
from .generic import ModelOutput
File "C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\venv\lib\site-packages\transformers\utils\generic.py", line 34, in
from .import_utils import (
File "C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\venv\lib\site-packages\transformers\utils\import_utils.py", line 251, in
_torch_available = version.parse(_torch_version) >= version.parse("2.1.0")
File "C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\venv\lib\site-packages\packaging\version.py", line 56, in parse
return Version(version)
File "C:\Users\Morty\AppData\Roaming\StabilityMatrix\Packages\ComfyUI\venv\lib\site-packages\packaging\version.py", line 200, in init
match = self._regex.search(version)
TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object
[W1018 09:08:28.000000000 AllocatorConfig.cpp:28] Warning: PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF is deprecated, use PYTORCH_ALLOC_CONF instead (function operator ())

Version

2.15.2

What Operating System are you using?

Windows