Nvidia driver installed but not running

I’m running Ubuntu 20.04
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (764.2 KB)

nvidia-smi returns “NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.”

May be the same issue.

5.4.0-80-generic
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal

From journalctl:

Jul 26 11:21:05 titan5 nvidia-persistenced[4091087]: Failed to query NVIDIA devices. Please ensure that the NVIDIA device files (/dev/nvidia*) exist, and that user 114 has read and write permissions for those files.
Jul 26 11:21:05 titan5 nvidia-persistenced[4091087]: PID file unlocked.
Jul 26 11:21:05 titan5 nvidia-persistenced[4091086]: nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details.
Jul 26 11:21:05 titan5 nvidia-persistenced[4091087]: PID file closed.
Jul 26 11:21:05 titan5 systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 26 11:21:05 titan5 nvidia-persistenced[4091087]: The daemon no longer has permission to remove its runtime data directory /var/run/nvidia-persistenced
Jul 26 11:21:05 titan5 nvidia-persistenced[4091087]: Shutdown (4091087)
Jul 26 11:21:05 titan5 systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Jul 26 11:21:05 titan5 kernel: nvidia: unknown parameter ‘NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement’ ignored
Jul 26 11:21:05 titan5 kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 237
NVRM: nouveau, rivafb, nvidiafb or rivatv
Jul 26 11:21:05 titan5 kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 237
Jul 26 11:21:05 titan5 systemd-udevd[949]: nvidia: Process ‘/sbin/modprobe nvidia-modeset’ failed with exit code 1.
Jul 26 11:21:05 titan5 kernel: nvidia: unknown parameter ‘NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement’ ignored
Jul 26 11:21:05 titan5 kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 237
NVRM: nouveau, rivafb, nvidiafb or rivatv
Jul 26 11:21:05 titan5 kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 237
Jul 26 11:21:05 titan5 systemd-udevd[949]: nvidia: Process ‘/sbin/modprobe nvidia-drm’ failed with exit code 1.
Jul 26 11:21:06 titan5 kernel: nvidia: unknown parameter ‘NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement’ ignored
Jul 26 11:21:06 titan5 kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 237
NVRM: nouveau, rivafb, nvidiafb or rivatv
Jul 26 11:21:06 titan5 kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 237
Jul 26 11:21:06 titan5 systemd-udevd[949]: nvidia: Process ‘/sbin/modprobe nvidia-uvm’ failed with exit code 1.
Jul 26 11:21:06 titan5 systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jul 26 11:21:06 titan5 systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Jul 26 11:21:06 titan5 kernel: nvidia: unknown parameter ‘NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement’ ignored
Jul 26 11:21:06 titan5 kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 237
NVRM: nouveau, rivafb, nvidiafb or rivatv
Jul 26 11:21:06 titan5 kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 237
Jul 26 11:21:06 titan5 systemd-udevd[949]: nvidia: Process ‘/sbin/modprobe nvidia-modeset’ failed with exit code 1.
Jul 26 11:21:07 titan5 kernel: nvidia: unknown parameter ‘NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement’ ignored
Jul 26 11:21:07 titan5 kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 237
NVRM: nouveau, rivafb, nvidiafb or rivatv
Jul 26 11:21:07 titan5 kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 237
Jul 26 11:21:07 titan5 systemd-udevd[949]: nvidia: Process ‘/sbin/modprobe nvidia-drm’ failed with exit code 1.
Jul 26 11:21:07 titan5 kernel: nvidia: unknown parameter ‘NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement’ ignored
Jul 26 11:21:07 titan5 kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 237
NVRM: nouveau, rivafb, nvidiafb or rivatv
Jul 26 11:21:07 titan5 kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 237
Jul 26 11:21:07 titan5 systemd-udevd[949]: nvidia: Process ‘/sbin/modprobe nvidia-uvm’ failed with exit code 1.
Jul 26 11:21:07 titan5 nvidia-persistenced[4093268]: Verbose syslog connection opened
Jul 26 11:21:07 titan5 nvidia-persistenced[4093268]: Now running with user ID 114 and group ID 119
Jul 26 11:21:07 titan5 nvidia-persistenced[4093268]: Started (4093268)
Jul 26 11:21:08 titan5 kernel: nvidia: unknown parameter ‘NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement’ ignored
Jul 26 11:21:08 titan5 kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 237
NVRM: nouveau, rivafb, nvidiafb or rivatv
Jul 26 11:21:08 titan5 kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 237