Just installed on M3 Mac. It will not start saying " Unable to start ComfyUI Desktop v0.4.51". I’d upload the logs but the system won’t allow me to do so, so here is the main log file:
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.562] [info] Using uv at /Applications/ComfyUI (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resources/uv/macos/uv
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.563] [info] Creating virtual environment at /Users/jeff/Documents/ComfyUI/.venv with python 3.12
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.563] [info] Running uv command: /Applications/ComfyUI (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resources/uv/macos/uv “venv” “–python” “3.12” “–python-preference” “only-managed”
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.566] [info] /Applications/ComfyUI (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resources/uv/macos/uv “venv” “–python” “3.12” “–python-preference” “only-managed”
echo “_-end-1748817905563:$?”
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.576] [info] %
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.581] [info]
Jeffs-M3-MacBook-Pro%
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.581] [info] //Applications/ComfyUI (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resource
s
s/uv/macos/uv “venv” "
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.581] [info] --python" “3.12” “–pyth
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.581] [info] on-preference” “o
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.581] [info] nly-managed”
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.583] [info] zsh: no matches found: (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resources/uv/macos/uv
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.583] [info] %
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.583] [info]
Jeffs-M3-MacBook-Pro% eecho “_-end-1748817905563:$?”
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.583] [info] _-end-1748817905563:1
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[2025-06-01 15:45:05.587] [error] Error creating virtual environment: Error: Failed to create virtual environment: exit code 1
at VirtualEnvironment.createVenvWithPython (/Applications/ComfyUI (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/.vite/build/main.cjs:25127:13)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at async descriptor.value (/Applications/ComfyUI (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/.vite/build/main.cjs:24856:9)
at async VirtualEnvironment.createEnvironment (/Applications/ComfyUI (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/.vite/build/main.cjs:25099:7)
at async VirtualEnvironment.create (/Applications/ComfyUI (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/.vite/build/main.cjs:25058:7)
at async b.freshInstall (/Applications/ComfyUI (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/.vite/build/main.cjs:26063:5)
at async b.resumeInstallation (/Applications/ComfyUI (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/.vite/build/main.cjs:25979:12)
at async b.ensureInstalled (/Applications/ComfyUI (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/.vite/build/main.cjs:25949:50)
at async DesktopApp.initializeInstallation (/Applications/ComfyUI (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/.vite/build/main.cjs:27296:14)
at async DesktopApp.start (/Applications/ComfyUI (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/.vite/build/main.cjs:27310:26)
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.599] [info] Received renderer-ready message!
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.600] [info] Sending queued message {“channel”:“loading-progress”,“data”:{“status”:“python-setup”}}
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.600] [info] Sending queued message {“channel”:“log-message”,“data”:"/Applications/ComfyUI (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resources/uv/macos/uv "venv" "–python" "3.12" "–python-preference" "only-managed"\r\necho "-end-1748817905563:$?"\r\n"}
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.600] [info] Sending queued message {“channel”:“log-message”,“data”:“\u001b[1m\u001b[7m%\u001b[27m\u001b[1m\u001b[0m \r \r”}
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.600] [info] Sending queued message {“channel”:“log-message”,“data”:“\r\u001b[0m\u001b[27m\u001b[24m\u001b[JJeffs-M3-MacBook-Pro% \u001b[K\u001b[?2004h”}
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.600] [info] Sending queued message {“channel”:“log-message”,“data”:“/\b/Applications/ComfyUI (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resource \r\u001b[Ks\rs/uv/macos/uv "venv" "”}
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.600] [info] Sending queued message {“channel”:“log-message”,“data”:“–python" "3.12" "–pyth”}
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.600] [info] Sending queued message {“channel”:“log-message”,“data”:“on-preference" "o”}
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.600] [info] Sending queued message {“channel”:“log-message”,“data”:“nly-managed"\u001b[?2004l\r\r\n”}
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.601] [info] Sending queued message {“channel”:“log-message”,“data”:“zsh: no matches found: (AI Image Gen).app/Contents/Resources/uv/macos/uv\r\n”}
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.601] [info] Sending queued message {“channel”:“log-message”,“data”:“\u001b[1m\u001b[7m%\u001b[27m\u001b[1m\u001b[0m \r \r”}
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.601] [info] Sending queued message {“channel”:“log-message”,“data”:"\r\u001b[0m\u001b[27m\u001b[24m\u001b[JJeffs-M3-MacBook-Pro% \u001b[K\u001b[?2004he\becho "-end-1748817905563:$?"\u001b[?2004l\r\r\n"}
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.601] [info] Sending queued message {“channel”:“log-message”,“data”:"-end-1748817905563:1\r\n\u001b[1m\u001b[7m%\u001b[27m\u001b[1m\u001b[0m \r \r"}
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.601] [info] Sending queued message {“channel”:“loading-progress”,“data”:{“status”:“error”}}
[2025-06-01 15:45:05.601] [info] Sending queued message {“channel”:“log-message”,“data”:“Error: Failed to create virtual environment: exit code 1\n”}