Daear @generix, per this thread in which you helped me extensively, I ended up upgrading the nvidia driver on my Ubuntu 18.04 workstation to version 510: Black screen in Ubuntu 18 even after purging Nvidia and installing drivers from repository - #34 by generix
I hadn’t reinstalled cuda because I could compartmentalize it in conda environments for all applications I needed so far.
Now I needed to install cuda for an application that seemingly cannot be in a conda environment. I mistakenly installed cudatoolkit 11.2 (which the application recommended) following the instructions for “deb local” on the nvidia website.
I got an incompatibility issue and thus remove it with:
sudo apt-get --purge remove "*cublas*" "cuda*" "nsight*"
And
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/cuda*
I learned nvidia driver v 510 requires toolkit 11.6, but in trying to install it per instructions here https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-11-6-0-download-archive?target_os=Linux&target_arch=x86_64&Distribution=Ubuntu&target_version=18.04&target_type=deb_local.
I got a broken packages error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
cuda : Depends: cuda-11-6 (>= 11.6.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I do not seem to have any nivida related repo to comment out in
sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
(Attaching file here just in case I missed anything relevant
jgalaz_ubuntu18_sources.txt (2.9 KB)
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The following after uninstalling cuda 11.2 and before attempting installation of cuda 11.6 did not seem to help:
sudo apt --fix-broken install
sudo apt-get autoremove
Autoremove output (below) suggested that driver 460 was still installed on my machine (weird, as previously nvidia-smi output indicated 510 was the driver, as per the thread linked at the beginning of this thread).
Not sure what the issue is . Do I need a fresh terminal after removing a cuda version and installing a new one? Is rebooting required at any point? I’m a bit jaded with nvidia driver and cuda installations and am wary about tinkering with this more without advice.
Particularly perturbed that nvidia-smi isn’t working now, which might suggest that the nvidia driver is again messed up.
I work remotely so this is very stressful.
sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libcufft-11-2 libcufft-dev-11-2 libcurand-11-2 libcurand-dev-11-2 libcusolver-11-2 libcusolver-dev-11-2 libcusparse-11-2 libcusparse-dev-11-2 libnpp-11-2
libnpp-dev-11-2 libnvidia-cfg1-460 libnvidia-common-460 libnvidia-decode-460 libnvidia-encode-460 libnvidia-extra-460 libnvidia-fbc1-460 libnvidia-gl-460
libnvidia-ifr1-460 libnvjpeg-11-2 libnvjpeg-dev-11-2 libxnvctrl0 nvidia-compute-utils-460 nvidia-dkms-460 nvidia-driver-460 nvidia-kernel-common-460
nvidia-kernel-source-460 nvidia-modprobe nvidia-prime nvidia-settings nvidia-utils-460 screen-resolution-extra xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-460
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 32 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 2,748 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database … 233579 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libcufft-dev-11-2 (10.4.0.72-1) …
Removing libcufft-11-2 (10.4.0.72-1) …
Removing libcurand-dev-11-2 (10.2.3.68-1) …
Removing libcurand-11-2 (10.2.3.68-1) …
Removing libcusolver-dev-11-2 (11.0.2.68-1) …
Removing libcusolver-11-2 (11.0.2.68-1) …
Removing libcusparse-dev-11-2 (11.3.1.68-1) …
Removing libcusparse-11-2 (11.3.1.68-1) …
Removing libnpp-dev-11-2 (11.2.1.68-1) …
Removing libnpp-11-2 (11.2.1.68-1) …
Removing nvidia-driver-460 (460.27.04-0ubuntu1) …
Removing xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-460 (460.27.04-0ubuntu1) …
Removing libnvidia-cfg1-460:amd64 (460.27.04-0ubuntu1) …
Removing libnvidia-ifr1-460:amd64 (460.27.04-0ubuntu1) …
Removing libnvidia-gl-460:amd64 (460.27.04-0ubuntu1) …
Removing libnvidia-common-460 (460.27.04-0ubuntu1) …
Removing libnvidia-encode-460:amd64 (460.27.04-0ubuntu1) …
Removing libnvidia-decode-460:amd64 (460.27.04-0ubuntu1) …
Removing libnvidia-extra-460:amd64 (460.27.04-0ubuntu1) …
Removing libnvidia-fbc1-460:amd64 (460.27.04-0ubuntu1) …
Removing libnvjpeg-dev-11-2 (11.3.1.68-1) …
Removing libnvjpeg-11-2 (11.3.1.68-1) …
dpkg: warning: while removing libnvjpeg-11-2, directory ‘/usr/local’ not empty so not removed
Removing nvidia-settings (470.57.01-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) …
Removing libxnvctrl0:amd64 (470.57.01-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) …
Removing nvidia-compute-utils-460 (460.27.04-0ubuntu1) …
Removing nvidia-dkms-460 (460.27.04-0ubuntu1) …
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
INFO:Disable nvidia
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Removing nvidia-kernel-common-460 (460.27.04-0ubuntu1) …
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Removing nvidia-kernel-source-460 (460.27.04-0ubuntu1) …
Removing nvidia-modprobe (460.27.04-0ubuntu1) …
Removing nvidia-prime (0.8.16~0.18.04.1) …
Removing nvidia-utils-460 (460.27.04-0ubuntu1) …
Removing screen-resolution-extra (0.17.3) …
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.2) …
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.13) …
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-219-generic
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1.6) …
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) …
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) …
Processing triggers for dbus (1.12.2-1ubuntu1.4) …
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) …
Thank you!
