Installing driver for ubuntu 18.04.5 fails with ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'

Hello everyone, hope you are all having a great time.
I have been trying to install cuda 10.2 on my ubuntu 18.04.5 without any luck for couple of days now.
I have 2 Tesla V100 and this is my OS configs(fresh install):

    x86_64
    4.15.0-136-generic
    DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
    DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
    DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
    DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS"
    NAME="Ubuntu"
    VERSION="18.04.5 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
    ID=ubuntu
    ID_LIKE=debian
    PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS"
    VERSION_ID="18.04"
    HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
    SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
    BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
    PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
    VERSION_CODENAME=bionic
    UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic

I downloaded the cudatoolkit from the official link and tried to install it.
These are the commands I used :

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo apt-get install g++ freeglut3-dev build-essential libx11-dev libxmu-dev libxi-dev libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev
sudo service lightdm stop # this resulted in Failed to stop lightdm.service: Unit lightdm.service not loaded.

then I did :

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

and wrote :

blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modset=0

then did :

sudo update-initramfs -u
reboot

then tried to install the driver :

bash ./cuda_10.2.89_440.33.01_linux_2.run

with the defaults values. then shortly after the process starts it fails with the following errors:

root@meme-1:~# bash ./cuda_10.2.89_440.33.01_linux_2.run
 Installation failed. See log at /var/log/cuda-installer.log for details.
root@meme-1:~# cat /var/log/cuda-installer.log
[INFO]: Driver not installed.
[INFO]: Checking compiler version...
[INFO]: gcc location: /usr/bin/gcc

[INFO]: gcc version: gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04)

[INFO]: Initializing menu
[INFO]: Setup complete
[INFO]: Components to install:
[INFO]: Driver
[INFO]: 440.33.01
[INFO]: Executing NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01.run --ui=none --no-questions --accept-license --disable-nouveau --no-cc-version-check --install-libglvnd  2>&1
[INFO]: Finished with code: 256
[ERROR]: Install of driver component failed.
[ERROR]: Install of 440.33.01 failed, quitting

Inspecting the cuda logs I see :

root@meme-1:~# cat /var/log/cuda-installer.log
[INFO]: Driver not installed.
[INFO]: Checking compiler version...
[INFO]: gcc location: /usr/bin/gcc

[INFO]: gcc version: gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04)

[INFO]: Initializing menu
[INFO]: Setup complete
[INFO]: Components to install:
[INFO]: Driver
[INFO]: 440.33.01
[INFO]: Executing NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01.run --ui=none --no-questions --accept-license --disable-nouveau --no-cc-version-check --install-libglvnd  2>&1
[INFO]: Finished with code: 256
[ERROR]: Install of driver component failed.
[ERROR]: Install of 440.33.01 failed, quitting

And inspecting the nvidia-installer shows :


root@meme-1:~# cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log
nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Tue Mar  9 14:18:56 2021
installer version: 440.33.01

PATH: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin

nvidia-installer command line:
    ./nvidia-installer
    --ui=none
    --no-questions
    --accept-license
    --disable-nouveau
    --no-cc-version-check
    --install-libglvnd

Using built-in stream user interface
-> Detected 112 CPUs online; setting concurrency level to 32.
-> Installing NVIDIA driver version 440.33.01.
-> For some distributions, Nouveau can be disabled by adding a file in the modprobe configuration directory.  Would you like nvidia-installer to attempt to create this modprobe file for you? (Answer: Yes)
-> One or more modprobe configuration files to disable Nouveau have been written.  For some distributions, this may be sufficient to disable Nouveau; other distributions may require modification of the initial ramdisk.  Please reboot your system and attempt NVIDIA driver installation again.  Note if you later wish to reenable Nouveau, you will need to delete these files: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf
-> Performing CC sanity check with CC="/usr/bin/cc".
-> Performing CC check.
-> Kernel source path: '/lib/modules/4.15.0-136-generic/build'
-> Kernel output path: '/lib/modules/4.15.0-136-generic/build'
-> Performing Compiler check.
-> Performing Dom0 check.
-> Performing Xen check.
-> Performing PREEMPT_RT check.
-> Performing vgpu_kvm check.
-> Cleaning kernel module build directory.
   executing: 'cd ./kernel; /usr/bin/make -k -j32 clean NV_EXCLUDE_KERNEL_MODULES="" SYSSRC="/lib/modules/4.15.0-136-generic/build" SYSOUT="/lib/modules/4.15.0-136-generic/build"'...
   rm -f -r conftest
   make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-136-generic'
   make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-136-generic'
-> Building kernel modules
   executing: 'cd ./kernel; /usr/bin/make -k -j32  NV_EXCLUDE_KERNEL_MODULES="" SYSSRC="/lib/modules/4.15.0-136-generic/build" SYSOUT="/lib/modules/4.15.0-136-generic/build"'...
   make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-136-generic'
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    CONFTEST: radix_tree_empty
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    CONFTEST: pnv_npu2_init_context
    CONFTEST: cpumask_of_node
    CONFTEST: drm_dev_unref
    CONFTEST: drm_reinit_primary_mode_group
    CONFTEST: get_user_pages_remote
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    CONFTEST: drm_gem_object_lookup
    CONFTEST: drm_atomic_state_ref_counting
    CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_gem_prime_res_obj
    CONFTEST: drm_atomic_helper_connector_dpms
    CONFTEST: drm_connector_funcs_have_mode_in_name
    CONFTEST: drm_framebuffer_get
    CONFTEST: drm_gem_object_get
    CONFTEST: drm_dev_put
    CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_gpl_of_node_to_nid
    CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_present_swiotlb_map_sg_attrs
    CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_present_swiotlb_dma_ops
    CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_present_kthread_create_on_node
    CONFTEST: acpi_op_remove
    CONFTEST: outer_flush_all
    CONFTEST: file_operations
    CONFTEST: file_inode
    CONFTEST: kuid_t
    CONFTEST: dma_ops
    CONFTEST: swiotlb_dma_ops
    CONFTEST: noncoherent_swiotlb_dma_ops
    CONFTEST: vm_fault_has_address
    CONFTEST: backlight_properties_type
    CONFTEST: vm_insert_pfn_prot
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    CONFTEST: vm_ops_fault_removed_vma_arg
    CONFTEST: vmbus_channel_has_ringbuffer_page
    CONFTEST: device_driver_of_match_table
    CONFTEST: device_of_node
    CONFTEST: node_states_n_memory
    CONFTEST: kmem_cache_has_kobj_remove_work
    CONFTEST: sysfs_slab_unlink
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    CONFTEST: mm_context_t
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    CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_set_busid
    CONFTEST: drm_crtc_state_has_connectors_changed
    CONFTEST: drm_init_function_args
    CONFTEST: drm_helper_mode_fill_fb_struct
    CONFTEST: drm_master_drop_has_from_release_arg
    CONFTEST: drm_driver_unload_has_int_return_type
    CONFTEST: drm_atomic_helper_crtc_destroy_state_has_crtc_arg
    CONFTEST: drm_crtc_helper_funcs_has_atomic_enable
    CONFTEST: drm_mode_object_find_has_file_priv_arg
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    CONFTEST: drm_atomic_helper_swap_state_has_stall_arg
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    CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_gpl_refcount_inc
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     CC [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_va_block_test.o
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     CC [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-crtc.o
     CC [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-encoder.o
     CC [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-connector.o
     CC [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem.o
     CC [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-fb.o
     CC [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-modeset.o
     CC [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-prime-fence.o
     CC [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-linux.o
     CC [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-helper.o
     CC [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-drm/nv-pci-table.o
     CC [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem-nvkms-memory.o
   ld -r -o /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia/nv-interface.o /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia/nv-frontend.o /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia/nv.o /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia/nv-pci.o /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia/nv-acpi.o /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia/nv-cray.o /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia/nv-dma.o /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia/nv-i2c.o /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia/nv-mempool.o /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia/nv-mmap.o /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia/nv-p2p.o /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.o /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia/nv-procfs.o /tmp/selfgz25
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     CC [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem-user-memory.o
     LD [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia.o
   ld -r -o /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-kthread-q.o
     LD [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-modeset.o
     LD [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-drm.o
     LD [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-uvm.o
     Building modules, stage 2.
     MODPOST 4 modules
     CC      /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o
     CC      /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o
     CC      /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o
     CC      /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia.mod.o
     LD [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-uvm.ko
     LD [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia.ko
     LD [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko
     LD [M]  /tmp/selfgz2526/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.33.01/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko
   make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-136-generic'
-> done.
-> Kernel module compilation complete.
ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'.  This happens most frequently when this kernel module was built against the wrong or improperly configured kernel sources, with a version of gcc that differs from the one used to build the target kernel, or if another driver, such as nouveau, is present and prevents the NVIDIA kernel module from obtaining ownership of the NVIDIA GPU(s), or no NVIDIA GPU installed in this system is supported by this NVIDIA Linux graphics driver release.

Please see the log entries 'Kernel module load error' and 'Kernel messages' at the end of the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for more information.
-> Kernel module load error: No such device
-> Kernel messages:
[   25.882616] kvm: disabled by bios
[   25.954605] kvm: disabled by bios
[   26.018502] kvm: disabled by bios
[   26.082412] kvm: disabled by bios
[  258.768110] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 Sense Key : Recovered Error [current]
[  258.768139] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 Add. Sense: Hardware impending failure general hard drive failure
[  288.652636] VFIO - User Level meta-driver version: 0.3
[  288.687236] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[  288.687246] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[  288.687247] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[  288.694093] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[  288.705065] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 511
[  288.705775] nvidia 0000:b1:00.0: enabling device (0140 -> 0142)
[  288.705863] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
               NVRM: BAR0 is 0M @ 0x0 (PCI:0000:b1:00.0)
[  288.705864] NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU.
[  288.705875] nvidia: probe of 0000:b1:00.0 failed with error -1
[  288.705889] nvidia 0000:b2:00.0: enabling device (0140 -> 0142)
[  288.705937] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
               NVRM: BAR0 is 0M @ 0x0 (PCI:0000:b2:00.0)
[  288.705938] NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU.
[  288.705944] nvidia: probe of 0000:b2:00.0 failed with error -1
[  288.705959] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 2 device(s).
[  288.705959] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA devices were initialized.
[  288.706098] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 511
ERROR: Installation has failed.  Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details.  You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

Also after balcklisting noveu lsmod | grep nouveau returns nothing. so it seems to be its disabled. however, I’m still failing

What’s wrong here and how should I be going about this?
Thank you all very much in advance

pn: I know there are other topics like this, I have checked them to no avail.

I tried installing a newer driver (i.e. NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02.run) and I got a new error message which is as follows :

root@meme-1:~# bash ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02.run
Verifying archive integrity... OK
Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 440.118.02.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
root@meme-1:~# cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log
nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Tue Mar  9 16:25:40 2021
installer version: 440.118.02

PATH: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin

nvidia-installer command line:
    ./nvidia-installer

Unable to load: nvidia-installer ncurses v6 user interface

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> Detected 112 CPUs online; setting concurrency level to 32.
-> Installing NVIDIA driver version 440.118.02.
-> Performing CC sanity check with CC="/usr/bin/cc".
-> Performing CC check.
-> Kernel source path: '/lib/modules/4.15.0-136-generic/build'
-> Kernel output path: '/lib/modules/4.15.0-136-generic/build'
-> Performing Compiler check.
-> Performing Dom0 check.
-> Performing Xen check.
-> Performing PREEMPT_RT check.
-> Performing vgpu_kvm check.
-> Cleaning kernel module build directory.
   executing: 'cd ./kernel; /usr/bin/make -k -j32 clean NV_EXCLUDE_KERNEL_MODULES="" SYSSRC="/lib/modules/4.15.0-136-generic/build" SYSOUT="/lib/modules/4.15.0-136-generic/build"'...
   rm -f -r conftest
   make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-136-generic'
   make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-136-generic'
-> Building kernel modules
   executing: 'cd ./kernel; /usr/bin/make -k -j32  NV_EXCLUDE_KERNEL_MODULES="" SYSSRC="/lib/modules/4.15.0-136-generic/build" SYSOUT="/lib/modules/4.15.0-136-generic/build"'...
   make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-136-generic'
     SYMLINK /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-kernel.o
     SYMLINK /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-kernel.o
    CONFTEST: hash__remap_4k_pfn
    CONFTEST: set_pages_uc
    CONFTEST: list_is_first
    CONFTEST: set_memory_uc
    CONFTEST: set_memory_array_uc
    CONFTEST: set_pages_array_uc
    CONFTEST: console_lock
    CONFTEST: acquire_console_sem
    CONFTEST: ioremap_cache
    CONFTEST: ioremap_wc
    CONFTEST: acpi_walk_namespace
    CONFTEST: sg_alloc_table
    CONFTEST: pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot
    CONFTEST: get_num_physpages
    CONFTEST: efi_enabled
    CONFTEST: pde_data
    CONFTEST: proc_remove
    CONFTEST: pm_vt_switch_required
    CONFTEST: xen_ioemu_inject_msi
    CONFTEST: phys_to_dma
    CONFTEST: get_dma_ops
    CONFTEST: write_cr4
    CONFTEST: of_get_property
    CONFTEST: of_find_node_by_phandle
    CONFTEST: of_node_to_nid
    CONFTEST: pnv_pci_get_npu_dev
    CONFTEST: of_get_ibm_chip_id
    CONFTEST: node_end_pfn
    CONFTEST: pci_bus_address
    CONFTEST: pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device
    CONFTEST: pci_remove_bus_device
    CONFTEST: register_cpu_notifier
    CONFTEST: cpuhp_setup_state
    CONFTEST: dma_map_resource
    CONFTEST: backlight_device_register
    CONFTEST: timer_setup
    CONFTEST: pci_enable_msix_range
    CONFTEST: do_gettimeofday
    CONFTEST: kernel_read
    CONFTEST: kernel_write
    CONFTEST: kthread_create_on_node
    CONFTEST: of_find_matching_node
    CONFTEST: dev_is_pci
    CONFTEST: dma_direct_map_resource
    CONFTEST: tegra_get_platform
    CONFTEST: flush_cache_all
    CONFTEST: vmf_insert_pfn
    CONFTEST: jiffies_to_timespec
    CONFTEST: ktime_get_raw_ts64
    CONFTEST: ktime_get_real_ts64
    CONFTEST: address_space_init_once
    CONFTEST: kbasename
    CONFTEST: vzalloc
    CONFTEST: wait_on_bit_lock_argument_count
    CONFTEST: bitmap_clear
    CONFTEST: usleep_range
    CONFTEST: radix_tree_empty
    CONFTEST: radix_tree_replace_slot
    CONFTEST: pnv_npu2_init_context
    CONFTEST: cpumask_of_node
    CONFTEST: drm_dev_unref
    CONFTEST: drm_reinit_primary_mode_group
    CONFTEST: get_user_pages_remote
    CONFTEST: get_user_pages
    CONFTEST: drm_gem_object_lookup
    CONFTEST: drm_atomic_state_ref_counting
    CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_gem_prime_res_obj
    CONFTEST: drm_atomic_helper_connector_dpms
    CONFTEST: drm_connector_funcs_have_mode_in_name
    CONFTEST: drm_framebuffer_get
    CONFTEST: drm_gem_object_get
    CONFTEST: drm_dev_put
    CONFTEST: drm_connector_for_each_possible_encoder
    CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_gpl_of_node_to_nid
    CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_gpl_sme_active
    CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_present_swiotlb_map_sg_attrs
    CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_present_swiotlb_dma_ops
    CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_present_kthread_create_on_node
    CONFTEST: acpi_op_remove
    CONFTEST: outer_flush_all
    CONFTEST: file_operations
    CONFTEST: file_inode
    CONFTEST: kuid_t
    CONFTEST: dma_ops
    CONFTEST: swiotlb_dma_ops
    CONFTEST: noncoherent_swiotlb_dma_ops
    CONFTEST: vm_fault_has_address
    CONFTEST: backlight_properties_type
    CONFTEST: vm_insert_pfn_prot
    CONFTEST: vmf_insert_pfn_prot
    CONFTEST: vm_ops_fault_removed_vma_arg
    CONFTEST: vmbus_channel_has_ringbuffer_page
    CONFTEST: device_driver_of_match_table
    CONFTEST: device_of_node
    CONFTEST: node_states_n_memory
    CONFTEST: kmem_cache_has_kobj_remove_work
    CONFTEST: sysfs_slab_unlink
    CONFTEST: proc_ops
    CONFTEST: vmalloc_has_pgprot_t_arg
    CONFTEST: timeval
    CONFTEST: mm_has_mmap_lock
    CONFTEST: address_space
    CONFTEST: backing_dev_info
    CONFTEST: mm_context_t
    CONFTEST: vm_fault_t
    CONFTEST: drm_bus_present
    CONFTEST: drm_bus_has_bus_type
    CONFTEST: drm_bus_has_get_irq
    CONFTEST: drm_bus_has_get_name
    CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_legacy_dev_list
    CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_set_busid
    CONFTEST: drm_crtc_state_has_connectors_changed
    CONFTEST: drm_init_function_args
    CONFTEST: drm_helper_mode_fill_fb_struct
    CONFTEST: drm_master_drop_has_from_release_arg
    CONFTEST: drm_driver_unload_has_int_return_type
    CONFTEST: drm_atomic_helper_crtc_destroy_state_has_crtc_arg
    CONFTEST: drm_crtc_helper_funcs_has_atomic_enable
    CONFTEST: drm_mode_object_find_has_file_priv_arg
    CONFTEST: dma_buf_owner
    CONFTEST: drm_connector_list_iter
    CONFTEST: drm_atomic_helper_swap_state_has_stall_arg
    CONFTEST: drm_driver_prime_flag_present
    CONFTEST: drm_gem_object_has_resv
    CONFTEST: dom0_kernel_present
    CONFTEST: nvidia_vgpu_hyperv_available
    CONFTEST: nvidia_vgpu_kvm_build
    CONFTEST: nvidia_grid_build
    CONFTEST: nvidia_grid_csp_build
    CONFTEST: pm_runtime_available
    CONFTEST: drm_available
    CONFTEST: drm_atomic_available
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     CC [M]  /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem-user-memory.o
   ld -r -o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-interface.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-frontend.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-pci.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-acpi.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-cray.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-dma.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-i2c.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-mempool.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-mmap.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-p2p.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-procfs.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-usermap.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-vm.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-vtophys.o /tmp/selfgz196
   19/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/os-interface.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/os-mlock.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/os-pci.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/os-registry.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/os-usermap.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-modeset-interface.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-pci-table.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-kthread-q.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-memdbg.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-ibmnpu.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-report-err.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-rsync.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nv-msi.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nv
   idia/nv_uvm_interface.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/nvlink_linux.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia/linux_nvswitch.o
     LD [M]  /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia.o
   ld -r -o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-kthread-q.o
     LD [M]  /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia-modeset.o
     LD [M]  /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia-drm.o
     LD [M]  /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia-uvm.o
     Building modules, stage 2.
     MODPOST 4 modules
     CC      /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o
     CC      /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o
     CC      /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o
     CC      /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia.mod.o
     LD [M]  /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko
     LD [M]  /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko
     LD [M]  /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia-uvm.ko
     LD [M]  /tmp/selfgz19619/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.118.02/kernel/nvidia.ko
   make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-136-generic'
-> done.
-> Kernel module compilation complete.
ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'.  This happens most frequently when this kernel module was built against the wrong or improperly configured kernel sources, with a version of gcc that differs from the one used to build the target kernel, or if another driver, such as nouveau, is present and prevents the NVIDIA kernel module from obtaining ownership of the NVIDIA GPU(s), or no NVIDIA GPU installed in this system is supported by this NVIDIA Linux graphics driver release.

Please see the log entries 'Kernel module load error' and 'Kernel messages' at the end of the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for more information.
-> Kernel module load error: No such device
-> Kernel messages:
[  202.667035] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
               NVRM: BAR0 is 0M @ 0x0 (PCI:0000:b1:00.0)
[  202.667036] NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU.
[  202.667047] nvidia: probe of 0000:b1:00.0 failed with error -1
[  202.667059] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
               NVRM: BAR0 is 0M @ 0x0 (PCI:0000:b2:00.0)
[  202.667059] NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU.
[  202.667065] nvidia: probe of 0000:b2:00.0 failed with error -1
[  202.667078] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 2 device(s).
[  202.667079] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA devices were initialized.
[  202.667221] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 237
[  315.448984] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 Sense Key : Recovered Error [current]
[  315.449011] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 Add. Sense: Hardware impending failure general hard drive failure
[ 4103.790204] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 237
[ 4103.791059] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
               NVRM: BAR0 is 0M @ 0x0 (PCI:0000:b1:00.0)
[ 4103.791062] NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU.
[ 4103.791076] nvidia: probe of 0000:b1:00.0 failed with error -1
[ 4103.791099] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
               NVRM: BAR0 is 0M @ 0x0 (PCI:0000:b2:00.0)
[ 4103.791101] NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU.
[ 4103.791110] nvidia: probe of 0000:b2:00.0 failed with error -1
[ 4103.791123] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 2 device(s).
[ 4103.791123] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA devices were initialized.
[ 4103.791288] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 237
ERROR: Installation has failed.  Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details.  You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

What’s wrong?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Here’s an update on how we seemingly solved this.
Removed the hard disk that hosted the OS, and installed a new one, installed Ubuntu 20.04.1 followed by installing the Cuda toolkit 11.0 with the 450.51.05 driver and all has been good so far for the past month.
The weird thing though was the 20.04.2 or newer drivers wouldn’t work for some reason! so this worked for us. hope this is helpful for someone else facing such issues.