Hi,
I’m using a virtual machine on Debian, and this GPU server has a GeForce RTX 3090 allocated to my user. I have installed the NVIDIA drivers with the following command:
apt install nvidia-driver firmware-misc-nonfree
and have installed cuda with
apt install nvidia-cuda-dev nvidia-cuda-toolkit
However, nvidia-smi is returning this error:
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
Also, there is no folder named /dev/nvidia/. When I reinstall the driver, it says it’s up to date to the latest driver. Could you please direct me on how to solve this issue?
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vendor: Intel Corporation
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vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
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configuration: depth=32 latency=0 mode=1280x800 visual=truecolor xres=1280 yres=800
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systemctl status nvidia-persistenced
× nvidia-persistenced.service - NVIDIA Persistence Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-persistenced.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2025-04-17 10:23:07 EDT; 1 week 4 days ago
CPU: 337ms
Apr 17 10:23:07 debian-test-url-001 systemd[1]: Starting nvidia-persistenced.service - NVIDIA Persistence Daemon…
Apr 17 10:23:07 debian-test-url-001 nvidia-persistenced[558]: Started (558)
Apr 17 10:23:07 debian-test-url-001 nvidia-persistenced[558]: Failed to query NVIDIA devices. Please ensure that the NV>
Apr 17 10:23:07 debian-test-url-001 nvidia-persistenced[558]: Shutdown (558)
Apr 17 10:23:07 debian-test-url-001 nvidia-persistenced[551]: nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog fo>
Apr 17 10:23:07 debian-test-url-001 systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Control process exited, code=exited, statu>
Apr 17 10:23:07 debian-test-url-001 systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Apr 17 10:23:07 debian-test-url-001 systemd[1]: Failed to start nvidia-persistenced.service - NVIDIA Persistence Daemon.```
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