[GH-ISSUE #14281] Couldn't open model file on any run command #55811

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opened 2026-04-29 09:45:46 -05:00 by GiteaMirror · 6 comments
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Originally created by @lesterb on GitHub (Feb 16, 2026).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/14281

What is the issue?

Fedora 43
Ollama from official repo info
Name : ollama
Epoch : 0
Version : 0.9.4
Release : 4.fc43
Pull requests are succesfull, but any run results in:

$ollama run gpt-oss:20b-cloud
pulling manifest 
pulling cf2ed067e945: 100% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏  381 B                         
verifying sha256 digest 
writing manifest 
success 
Error: model 'gpt-oss:20b-cloud' not found

in the logs

[GIN] 2026/02/16 - 17:41:39 | 200 |  787.413532ms |       127.0.0.1 | POST     "/api/pull"
time=2026-02-16T17:41:39.348+02:00 level=ERROR source=images.go:90 msg="couldn't open model file" error="open : no such file or directory"
[GIN] 2026/02/16 - 17:41:39 | 404 |     450.038µs |       127.0.0.1 | POST     "/api/show"

The .ollama/models directory contains blobs/manifests. There are no unicode characters in the path.

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Originally created by @lesterb on GitHub (Feb 16, 2026). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/14281 ### What is the issue? Fedora 43 Ollama from official repo info Name : ollama Epoch : 0 Version : 0.9.4 Release : 4.fc43 Pull requests are succesfull, but any run results in: ``` $ollama run gpt-oss:20b-cloud pulling manifest pulling cf2ed067e945: 100% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 381 B verifying sha256 digest writing manifest success Error: model 'gpt-oss:20b-cloud' not found ``` in the logs ``` [GIN] 2026/02/16 - 17:41:39 | 200 | 787.413532ms | 127.0.0.1 | POST "/api/pull" time=2026-02-16T17:41:39.348+02:00 level=ERROR source=images.go:90 msg="couldn't open model file" error="open : no such file or directory" [GIN] 2026/02/16 - 17:41:39 | 404 | 450.038µs | 127.0.0.1 | POST "/api/show" ``` The .ollama/models directory contains blobs/manifests. There are no unicode characters in the path. ### Relevant log output ```shell ``` ### OS _No response_ ### GPU _No response_ ### CPU _No response_ ### Ollama version _No response_
GiteaMirror added the bug label 2026-04-29 09:45:46 -05:00
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@rick-github commented on GitHub (Feb 16, 2026):

Do you have a lot of models? I find that it sometimes takes the ollama server several attempts to see a newly downloaded model when there are many models.

<!-- gh-comment-id:3909626057 --> @rick-github commented on GitHub (Feb 16, 2026): Do you have a lot of models? I find that it sometimes takes the ollama server several attempts to see a newly downloaded model when there are many models.
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@lesterb commented on GitHub (Feb 16, 2026):

No, not really, only 4 of them

 $ollama list
NAME                  ID              SIZE     MODIFIED    
gpt-oss:20b-cloud     875e8e3a629a    381 B    4 hours ago    
minimax-m2.5:cloud    c0d5751c800f    337 B    4 hours ago    
minimax-m2:cloud      698ab6d56142    382 B    3 days ago     
minimax-m2.1:cloud    4ada3a038304    378 B    3 days ago 
<!-- gh-comment-id:3910273977 --> @lesterb commented on GitHub (Feb 16, 2026): No, not really, only 4 of them ``` $ollama list NAME ID SIZE MODIFIED gpt-oss:20b-cloud 875e8e3a629a 381 B 4 hours ago minimax-m2.5:cloud c0d5751c800f 337 B 4 hours ago minimax-m2:cloud 698ab6d56142 382 B 3 days ago minimax-m2.1:cloud 4ada3a038304 378 B 3 days ago ```
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@rick-github commented on GitHub (Feb 18, 2026):

What's the output of ollama -v?

<!-- gh-comment-id:3918153243 --> @rick-github commented on GitHub (Feb 18, 2026): What's the output of `ollama -v`?
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@lesterb commented on GitHub (Feb 18, 2026):

ollama version is 0.0.0

<!-- gh-comment-id:3922294993 --> @lesterb commented on GitHub (Feb 18, 2026): `ollama version is 0.0.0`
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@rick-github commented on GitHub (Feb 18, 2026):

0.0.0 is not an official release. The official release can be installed with curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh.

<!-- gh-comment-id:3922841877 --> @rick-github commented on GitHub (Feb 18, 2026): `0.0.0` is not an official release. The official release can be installed with `curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh`.
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@lesterb commented on GitHub (Feb 19, 2026):

I installed version 0.16.2 and it's working. Thank you.

<!-- gh-comment-id:3926311017 --> @lesterb commented on GitHub (Feb 19, 2026): I installed version 0.16.2 and it's working. Thank you.
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Reference: github-starred/ollama#55811