[GH-ISSUE #13900] ollama pull shows "pulling manifest" multiple times repeatedly #34855

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opened 2026-04-22 18:47:14 -05:00 by GiteaMirror · 2 comments
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Originally created by @ADTC on GitHub (Jan 25, 2026).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/13900

As you can see below, the ollama pull command repeats pulling manifest several times until it's completed. It should not be repeated, but instead maybe show an updating indicator on the same line (like a moving dot or some animation).

> ollama pull gemma3:12b

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pulling e8ad13eff07a: 100% ▕███████████████████████████▏ 8.1 GB                         
pulling e0a42594d802: 100% ▕███████████████████████████▏  358 B                         
pulling dd084c7d92a3: 100% ▕███████████████████████████▏ 8.4 KB                         
pulling 3116c5225075: 100% ▕███████████████████████████▏   77 B                         
pulling 6819964c2bcf: 100% ▕███████████████████████████▏  490 B                         
verifying sha256 digest 
writing manifest 
success 
Originally created by @ADTC on GitHub (Jan 25, 2026). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/13900 As you can see below, the `ollama pull` command repeats `pulling manifest` several times until it's completed. It should not be repeated, but instead maybe show an updating indicator on the same line (like a moving dot or some animation). ``` > ollama pull gemma3:12b pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling manifest pulling e8ad13eff07a: 100% ▕███████████████████████████▏ 8.1 GB pulling e0a42594d802: 100% ▕███████████████████████████▏ 358 B pulling dd084c7d92a3: 100% ▕███████████████████████████▏ 8.4 KB pulling 3116c5225075: 100% ▕███████████████████████████▏ 77 B pulling 6819964c2bcf: 100% ▕███████████████████████████▏ 490 B verifying sha256 digest writing manifest success ```
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@rick-github commented on GitHub (Jan 25, 2026):

What OS and ollama version?

ollama does normally do what you describe, I suspect some terminal setting is causing the terminal cursor to do a line feed between moving dot updates.

<!-- gh-comment-id:3796405790 --> @rick-github commented on GitHub (Jan 25, 2026): What OS and ollama version? ollama does normally do what you describe, I suspect some terminal setting is causing the terminal cursor to do a line feed between moving dot updates.
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@ADTC commented on GitHub (Jan 25, 2026):

It doesn't happen for the data pull though...? It shows 0% to 100% updating on the same line.

pulling e8ad13eff07a: 100% ▕███████████████████████████▏ 8.1 GB   

Anyway it's macOS and I'm using Warp. ollama version is 0.15.1

<!-- gh-comment-id:3796862748 --> @ADTC commented on GitHub (Jan 25, 2026): It doesn't happen for the data pull though...? It shows 0% to 100% updating on the same line. ``` pulling e8ad13eff07a: 100% ▕███████████████████████████▏ 8.1 GB ``` Anyway it's macOS and I'm using Warp. ollama version is 0.15.1
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