Issues with Nvidia graphics driver and CUDA after apt-get upgrade
Solution 1
A friend was able to solve it for me!
The solution that he showed me was to (after removing all nvidia packages as before)
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-364
then download the .run CUDA installer (for me it was cuda_7.5.18_linux.run) from Nvidia and be careful to choose "no" when asked whether you want to install the driver that is packaged with CUDA.
Solution 2
I had a similar problem. Was able to solve this by installing the recommended version of nvidia driver.
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-drivers-common
sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
sudo apt-get install <recommended version>
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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pterojacktyl over 1 year
I previously installed CUDA 7.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 using the "deb (network)" install from Nvidia. It has worked for a few months, until I ran
sudo apt-get upgrade
today. After doing this, I encountered the following$ nvidia-smi modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:809 kmod_module_insert_module() could not find module by name='nvidia_352' modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_352': Function not implemented NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
Running
sudo nvidia-smi
is no different. I am unable to login in GUI mode (it just goes back to the login screen after I enter my password), but I can access the terminal.I have been able to restore graphical functionality, however I am having difficulty re-installing CUDA after that. Can you please help me?
Restoring graphics
I have found that I can get the graphics to work again by doing
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia* $ sudo apt-get autoremove
and then editing
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/cuda.list
to remove all lines, then doing$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-352
and rebooting the system. After this,
nvidia-smi
is working again. However, I still need to re-install CUDA.Trying to re-install CUDA
I tried restoring the contents of
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/cuda.list
and then doingsudo apt-get install cuda
. I noticed this error message:Loading new nvidia-352-352.93 DKMS files... Building only for 3.13.0-68-generic Building for architecture x86_64 Building initial module for 3.13.0-68-generic ERROR: Cannot create report: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/crash/nvidia-352.0.crash' Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.13.0-68-generic (x86_64)
After doing this, the system is returned to its behaviour at the start. For example,
nvidia-smi
prints the error message above, and after building and runningdeviceQuery
I get a similar error:./deviceQuery Starting... CUDA Device Query (Runtime API) version (CUDART static linking) modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:809 kmod_module_insert_module() could not find module by name='nvidia_352' modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_352': Function not implemented cudaGetDeviceCount returned 38 -> no CUDA-capable device is detected Result = FAIL
I seem to recall that when I first installed CUDA, it would only work if I did it without updating the
nvidia-352
package from the Nvidia repositories. However, now I don't seem to have the option of doing that, because when I runsudo apt-get install cuda
it automatically upgrades thenvidia-352
package:Unpacking nvidia-352 (352.93-0ubuntu1) over (352.63-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
If I try to set the versions explicitly, I get
$ sudo apt-get install cuda-drivers nvidia-352=352.63-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 nvidia-352-dev=352.63-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies. cuda-drivers : Depends: nvidia-352 (>= 352.93) but 352.63-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 is to be installed Depends: nvidia-352-dev (>= 352.93) but 352.63-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
In fact, if I try to use version
352.63-0ubuntu1
instead of352.63-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
by doing$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-352=352.63-0ubuntu1
then this is enough to break the graphical login and cause
nvidia-smi
to display the error message above.Diagnostics
$ lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM200 [GeForce GTX TITAN X] (rev a1) $ dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia ii bbswitch-dkms 0.7-2ubuntu1 amd64 Interface for toggling the power on nVidia Optimus video cards ii libcuda1-352 352.93-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA CUDA runtime library ii nvidia-352 352.93-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA binary driver - version 352.93 ii nvidia-352-dev 352.93-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files ii nvidia-352-uvm 352.93-0ubuntu1 amd64 Transitional package for nvidia-352 ii nvidia-modprobe 352.93-0ubuntu1 amd64 Load the NVIDIA kernel driver and create device files ii nvidia-opencl-icd-352 352.93-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD ii nvidia-prime 0.6.2 amd64 Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime ii nvidia-settings 352.93-0ubuntu1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
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MARK almost 7 yearsI had to issue the command "sudo modprobe nvidia" after the above commands then every thing was working
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aerin almost 6 years@MARK I'm getting error by modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_396': Required key not available. Any tips?