nvidia-smi returns No devices were found. Upon further investigation, I found the following errors:
`[Fri Aug 8 15:53:36 2025] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input5
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:36 2025] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input6
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:36 2025] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input7
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:36 2025] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input8
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:36 2025] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:36 2025] nvidia: module license ‘NVIDIA’ taints kernel.
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:36 2025] nvidia: module license taints kernel.
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:36 2025] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 238
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:36 2025] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:36 2025] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 535.247.01 Wed Mar 26 11:50:32 UTC 2025
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:36 2025] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 535.247.01 Wed Mar 26 06:12:31 UTC 2025
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:36 2025] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:39 2025] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x31:0xffff:2525)
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:39 2025] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:39 2025] [drm:nv_drm_load [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to allocate NvKmsKapiDevice
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:39 2025] [drm:nv_drm_probe_devices [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to register device
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:40 2025] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols nvUvmInterfaceDisableAccessCntr from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint.
[Fri Aug 8 15:53:40 2025] nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver, major device number 235.
[Fri Aug 8 15:55:28 2025] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x31:0xffff:2525)
[Fri Aug 8 15:55:28 2025] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0
[Fri Aug 8 15:55:28 2025] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x31:0xffff:2525)
[Fri Aug 8 15:55:28 2025] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0`
I don’t think it’s a problem with hardware because I’m having this problem for multiple computers in the lab. The GPU was working properly before, but stopped working a few days ago for multiple computers simultaneously. I searched through the forums but wasn’t able to find a working solution. Has anyone run into this problem and has found a workaround? Thanks in advance!