I'm a big fan of Ollama as a way to try and run a large language model locally. Today I got into trouble when I tried to connect to Ollama.
When I tried to run Ollama through ollama serve I got the following error message:
time=2024-12-02T21:15:55.398+01:00 level=ERROR source=common.go:279 msg="empty runner dir"
Error: unable to initialize llm runners unable to locate runners in any search path
I was able to fix the issue by going the AppData\Local\Ollama folder. There inside updates I found a new(er) version that I installed manually by executing the OllamaSetup.exe.
After the setup completed, Ollama was running again as expected.