3.0.1post3 (#4082)

This is a relatively stable release that corrects the urgent windows
install and model manager problems in 3.0.1. It still has two known
bugs:

1. Many inpainting models are not loading correctly.
2. The merge script is failing to start.

Author: lstein

invokeai/app/services/config.py

@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ def add_subparser(cls, parser: argparse.ArgumentParser):
     @classmethod
     def _excluded(self) -> List[str]:
         # internal fields that shouldn't be exposed as command line options
-        return ["type", "initconf"]
+        return ["type", "initconf", "cached_root"]
 
     @classmethod
     def _excluded_from_yaml(self) -> List[str]:
@@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ def _excluded_from_yaml(self) -> List[str]:
             "restore",
             "root",
             "nsfw_checker",
+            "cached_root",
         ]
 
     class Config:
@@ -423,6 +424,7 @@ class InvokeAIAppConfig(InvokeAISettings):
     log_level           : Literal[tuple(["debug","info","warning","error","critical"])] = Field(default="info", description="Emit logging messages at this level or  higher", category="Logging")
 
     version             : bool = Field(default=False, description="Show InvokeAI version and exit", category="Other")
+    cached_root         : Path = Field(default=None,  description="internal use only", category="DEPRECATED")
     # fmt: on
 
     def parse_args(self, argv: List[str] = None, conf: DictConfig = None, clobber=False):
@@ -470,10 +472,15 @@ def root_path(self) -> Path:
         """
         Path to the runtime root directory
         """
-        if self.root:
-            return Path(self.root).expanduser().absolute()
+        # we cache value of root to protect against it being '.' and the cwd changing
+        if self.cached_root:
+            root = self.cached_root
+        elif self.root:
+            root = Path(self.root).expanduser().absolute()
         else:
-            return self.find_root()
+            root = self.find_root()
+        self.cached_root = root
+        return self.cached_root
 
     @property
     def root_dir(self) -> Path: