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[GH-ISSUE #8756] panic: $HOME is not defined #5682

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opened 2026-04-12 16:58:36 -05:00 by GiteaMirror · 5 comments
GiteaMirror commented 2026-04-12 16:58:36 -05:00
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Originally created by @ozbillwang on GitHub (Feb 1, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8756

What is the issue?

when manually run ollama pull deepseek-r1:8b, it is fine.

But when I put it in init script user-data.sh in ec2 instance, I got error

pull-model-1 | goroutine 1 [running]:
pull-model-1 | github.com/ollama/ollama/envconfig.Models()
pull-model-1 | github.com/ollama/ollama/envconfig/config.go:93 +0xa9
pull-model-1 | github.com/ollama/ollama/envconfig.AsMap()
pull-model-1 | github.com/ollama/ollama/envconfig/config.go:253 +0x699
pull-model-1 | github.com/ollama/ollama/cmd.NewCLI()
pull-model-1 | github.com/ollama/ollama/cmd/cmd.go:1329 +0xb68
pull-model-1 | main.main()
pull-model-1 | github.com/ollama/ollama/main.go:12 +0x13
pull-model-1 | panic: $HOME is not defined

before run the pull command, I checked the ollama service is running with systemctl status ollama

Run on ubuntu 24.04, t2.large and g4dn.xlarge, got same error.

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Linux

GPU

Nvidia

CPU

Intel

Ollama version

latest， 0.5.7

Originally created by @ozbillwang on GitHub (Feb 1, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8756 ### What is the issue? when manually run `ollama pull deepseek-r1:8b`, it is fine. But when I put it in init script `user-data.sh` in ec2 instance, I got error ``` pull-model-1 | goroutine 1 [running]: pull-model-1 | github.com/ollama/ollama/envconfig.Models() pull-model-1 | github.com/ollama/ollama/envconfig/config.go:93 +0xa9 pull-model-1 | github.com/ollama/ollama/envconfig.AsMap() pull-model-1 | github.com/ollama/ollama/envconfig/config.go:253 +0x699 pull-model-1 | github.com/ollama/ollama/cmd.NewCLI() pull-model-1 | github.com/ollama/ollama/cmd/cmd.go:1329 +0xb68 pull-model-1 | main.main() pull-model-1 | github.com/ollama/ollama/main.go:12 +0x13 pull-model-1 | panic: $HOME is not defined ``` before run the pull command, I checked the ollama service is running with `systemctl status ollama` Run on `ubuntu 24.04`, `t2.large` and `g4dn.xlarge`, got same error. ### OS Linux ### GPU Nvidia ### CPU Intel ### Ollama version latest， 0.5.7
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GiteaMirror commented 2026-04-12 16:58:37 -05:00
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@ozbillwang commented on GitHub (Feb 1, 2025):

same issue was discussed in https://github.com/docker/genai-stack/issues/176

<!-- gh-comment-id:2628887471 --> @ozbillwang commented on GitHub (Feb 1, 2025): same issue was discussed in https://github.com/docker/genai-stack/issues/176
GiteaMirror commented 2026-04-12 16:58:38 -05:00
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@rick-github commented on GitHub (Feb 1, 2025):

Set HOME in the script.

export HOME=/the/home/dir/of/ollama
<!-- gh-comment-id:2628917671 --> @rick-github commented on GitHub (Feb 1, 2025): Set HOME in the script. ``` export HOME=/the/home/dir/of/ollama ```
GiteaMirror commented 2026-04-12 16:58:38 -05:00
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@ozbillwang commented on GitHub (Feb 2, 2025):

Still same issue

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i can only define the environment variable in its service file /etc/systemd/system/ollama.service

add this line: Environment="HOME=/root"

root@ip-172-31-32-45:/var/log# cat /etc/systemd/system/ollama.service
[Unit]
Description=Ollama Service
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Environment="HOME=/root"
Environment="OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0"
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ollama serve
User=ollama
Group=ollama
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
Environment="PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/snap/bin"

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
root@ip-172-31-32-45:/var/log#
<!-- gh-comment-id:2629501986 --> @ozbillwang commented on GitHub (Feb 2, 2025): Still same issue ![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/50922cd0-6023-43f7-a107-dfd9d64bee72) i can only define the environment variable in its service file `/etc/systemd/system/ollama.service` add this line: `Environment="HOME=/root"` ``` root@ip-172-31-32-45:/var/log# cat /etc/systemd/system/ollama.service [Unit] Description=Ollama Service After=network-online.target [Service] Environment="HOME=/root" Environment="OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0" ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ollama serve User=ollama Group=ollama Restart=always RestartSec=3 Environment="PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/snap/bin" [Install] WantedBy=default.target root@ip-172-31-32-45:/var/log# ```
GiteaMirror commented 2026-04-12 16:58:38 -05:00
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@rick-github commented on GitHub (Feb 2, 2025):

You said you were running ollama in user-data.sh. That's where HOME needs to be set.

<!-- gh-comment-id:2629556779 --> @rick-github commented on GitHub (Feb 2, 2025): You said you were running ollama in `user-data.sh`. That's where HOME needs to be set.
GiteaMirror commented 2026-04-12 16:58:39 -05:00
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@ozbillwang commented on GitHub (Feb 2, 2025):

Thanks, the issue is fixed.

<!-- gh-comment-id:2629561335 --> @ozbillwang commented on GitHub (Feb 2, 2025): Thanks, the issue is fixed.
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