Fix: Control-Net; ImportError; Undefined; pydantic; insightface

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• repost of Fix: Control-Net; ImportError; Undefined; pydantic; insightface #15564

Currently there is an issue with new installation of Control Net breaking WebUI

this is caused by a recent update to Control-Net's Upstream dependency albumentations 1.4.4 see history
in
albumentations 1.4.4 they introduce and you dependency requirement

• pydantic required: >=2.6.4

albumentations is installed by insightface which specifies Any version of albumentations as such pip install the latest version of 1.4.4

webui 1.9 with Gradio==3.41.2 uses fastapi==0.94.0 which requires]
pydantic required: >=1.7.4,<3.0.0,!=2.0.1,!=2.0.0,!=1.8.1,!=1.8

• note pydantic may change after Gradio 4 #14184

as such the Upstream update of albumentations causes WebUi to break

Any other extensions that also uses insightface will also be affected with the same issue

User Fix

downgrading pydantic to 1.10.15 and albumentations to 1.4.3
the can be done by running the following command in the webui's python environment

from the webui root the following commands
if using powershell on windwos

.\venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1
pip install albumentations==1.4.3
pip install pydantic==1.10.15

if using cmd on windows

venv\Scripts\activate
pip install albumentations==1.4.3
pip install pydantic==1.10.15

if using linux

source venv/bin/activate
pip install albumentations==1.4.3
pip install pydantic==1.10.15

Related issues

• [Bug]: ControlNet breaks my WebUI #15556

Fix PR
fix solution, install albumentations==1.4.3 before insightface
this way pip won't auto install the newest version 1.4.4

• Control Net Install fix, albumentations pydantic insightface, onnxruntime-gpu Mikubill/sd-webui-controlnet#2761
• ReActor albumentations==1.4.3 Gourieff/sd-webui-reactor#424
• FaceFusion albumentations==1.4.3 diffus-me/sd-webui-facefusion#30

if anyone know of any other extensions that uses insightface please inform them about this issue