Nvidia driver not work after reboot on Ubuntu

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Dear,
We have found several times on different computers that the Nvidia driver(410 or 396) not work after reboot on UBUNTU(16.04) system.

  • It happened after around several weeks each time.
  • When the error happened, The NVIDIA-SMI is throwing this error: NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver.
  • After reinstalled the driver, it could back to work.

Anybody has any idea, what’s cause this issue? And how to fix it?

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If you used the .run installer to install, maybe you forgot to use the --dkms option for the driver to survive a kernel update. It’s better to not use the .run installer on Ubuntu though, instead add the Ubuntu graphics ppa and use the packaged driver from that.

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Thanks for your suggestion that should be the correct reason.
I have just check the kernel of Ubuntu that had been updated recently.
And I haven’t installed the driver with the dkms.

Thanks for your answer again.