I have come across a potential rough edge with the nvidia docker runtime provided with Jetpack 4.2.1. All of he following is run on a TX2 module mounted on a Colorado Engineering XCarrier carrier board. I am working with a deviceQuery binary built locally from the Cuda samples provided in jetpack …

When you are running on a system which does not allow non-root, run the “groups” command. Is that user a member of “video”? If not, try adding the user to “video”: “sudo usermod -a -G video ”. Note the “-a” is for append and is important…append adds to a group, and without this, the entire set of gr…

Hi, Here is our document for nvidia-docker on Jetson: [image] GitHub - NVIDIA/nvidia-docker: Build and run Docker containers leveraging NVIDIA... Build and run Docker containers leveraging NVIDIA GPUs You can execute a CUDA sample with the command lik…

Yes - that works for me too - and is equivalent to the first Dockerfile I give above other than the building the deviceQuery binary during the container build. It is still running the deviceQuery command as root within the container which is obviously bad practice in any system intended for product…

Thanks @linuxdev , that works, if I add the user to group video it works as expected e.g.: FROM nvcr.io/nvidia/l4t-base:r32.2 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends make g++ RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash user && echo "user:password" | chpasswd && usermod -a -G video user USE…

Hello Together, I have the same problem, but the Solution is not working for me. I use the nvidia-docker-containerfile and modified it: FROM nvidia/cuda:10.2-devel-ubuntu18.04 LABEL maintainer “My name” ENV CUDNN_VERSION 7.6.5.32 LABEL com.nvidia.cudnn.version=“${CUDNN_VERSION}” RUN apt-get …

I set up a clean TX2 locally (Based on JP4.4), I can exec “deviceQuery” succeed on build-time. Steps as follow: Install necessary libs $ sudo apt update; sudo apt install nvidia-container-runtime cuda-samples-10-2 ; sudo apt update -qq; sudo apt install -qq -y software-properties-common uidmap;…

nvidia-docker seems unable to use GPU as non-root user

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson Systems Jetson TX2

AastaLLL August 22, 2019, 2:38am 4

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback.
I will check this with our internal team and update information with you later.

Thanks.

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nvidia-docker seems unable to use GPU as non-root user

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