[BUG] No model being downloaded after initialisation

[Intrinsically-Sublime]

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Current Behavior

I am setting up a fresh install of HA and want to use faster whisper with my GPU. But after starting the container it does not download a model and HA can not connect to it. I get 0 errors from either HA or faster-whisper. The config folder is created but does not contain anything.

Expected Behavior

I would expect it to download the specified model and finish initialising.

Steps To Reproduce

Fresh docker compose after running docker system prune -a

I have tried both latest and gpu with the same results.

Environment

Ubuntu 24.04
Nvidia GPU with CUDA 12.4 on 550.163.01
Docker is installed via apt

CPU architecture

x86-64

Docker creation

services:
  faster-whisper:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/faster-whisper:gpu
    container_name: faster-whisper
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=America/Vancouver
      - WHISPER_MODEL=small.en
      - WHISPER_BEAM=1 #optional
      - WHISPER_LANG=en #optional
    ports:
      - 10300:10300
    runtime: nvidia
    deploy:
      resources:
        reservations:
          devices:
            - driver: nvidia
              device_ids: ['0']
              capabilities: [compute, utility, gpu]

Container logs

[migrations] started
[migrations] no migrations found
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      ██║     ╚════██║██║██║   ██║
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User GID:    1000
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[Intrinsically-Sublime]

I have tried with the default tiny-int8 with the same results.

[Intrinsically-Sublime]

I tried starting it using docker compose --verbose and all I get it is otel error error="<nil>" which does not help me understand what is wrong.

[PooruTorie]

I encountered the same issue — I just let the container sit for a while, and eventually the model loaded.
Some more detailed logging or a progress indicator would have been really helpful.

[LinuxServer-CI]

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[Intrinsically-Sublime]

This was due to my hardware being too old to run it. I have upgraded the hardware and now it works perfectly.

[LinuxServer-CI]

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