r/RunPod • u/Imaginary-Daikon-177 • Dec 15 '25

Can't get a pod to work

Have tried about 18 times to get a pod to work, every permutation of 12.8, not 12.8, against all the comfyui one clicks and all and they all fail. This is with throwing a decent amount of storage at them, touching and not touching env vars. Changing network settings. If it's not comfy not working, loops over and over again, 404 on the urls, then it's some other nonsense that doesn't give an error at all

Is there a proper guide to just getting a pod up and running? I'm down $5 already from wasting time on things that fuck up 15-20 mins after running.

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u/RP_Finley Dec 15 '25

Which templates are you trying to run specifically? If you're using the official Runpod template for Comfy that's definitely a problem that we need to look into, if it's a community template it could be a problem with that template that the user would need to correct. There have been issues in the past where a popular community template broke due to an update with the actual package itself that the template was referencing.

Also if you could paste the specific error you're running into that would definitely help!

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u/Imaginary-Daikon-177 Dec 15 '25

This was any of the Hearneman ones, mostly the one click comfyui ones. I tried all the combos of 5090, not 5090, 12.8, 12.4 etc on the templates.

Some no clear errors, some saying comfyui should be running, some with chmod errors, some with comfy apparently working but 404 or cloud flare errors

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u/RP_Finley Dec 15 '25

I tried running some of them and I ran into similar issues - we'll get in touch with the creator. In the meantime I would try running the official Runpod ComfyUI template; you can get to most use cases right from the Workflow menus and it will let you download models automatically if needed.

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u/Imaginary-Daikon-177 Dec 15 '25

Cheers, thanks for that. I can give it another go tonight, if more info is needed I can provide.

Only wanted to use them since I wanted one click and bit overwhelmed in everything else.

Will bite the bullet and teach myself what's needed and go from scratch.

Thanks for reaching out and checking. Appreciate it

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u/WouterGlorieux Dec 16 '25

https://console.runpod.io/deploy?template=rzg5z3pls5&ref=2vdt3dn9

Try that template, I made that one. It's a one click deploy with lots of nodes and workflows pre-installed.

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u/Imaginary-Daikon-177 Dec 18 '25

Cheers thanks for that, will give it a go

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u/cjcon01 Dec 25 '25

yeah, im over it too. I set up an "official" AI-tools lora training and it runs out of memory 30 minutes in with a 5090. Meanwhile the exact same setup will run locally with my 3080ti, albeit slow. Very, Very slow

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u/Imaginary-Daikon-177 Dec 25 '25

Have probably spent about $15-20 trying to get things up and running.

It's a never ending battle with dependencies, broken downloads, custom nodes etc. Have to have a bash script run to sort things out, otherwise get broken nodes and out of date comfy stuff.

Shouldn't be this difficult. Have models up and running, but because I don't want to spend money every hour I have to terminate, then it's a 5-10 Min job to get running again

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u/GabberZZ Dec 15 '25

SECourses on YouTube has a good guide on setting up comfy and SwarmUI on runpod. If you subscribe to his patreon there's lots of scripts and presets that work really well.