I have a dell G15 laptop with ubuntu 20.04, and a NVIDIA RTX 3060.
I managed to install the drivers and get a working setup. However, this morning I was suddenly unable to do anything related to my GPU.
When I am running the command “nvidia-settings”, I get this error :
ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded
ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system
(nvidia-settings:5303): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 13:08:02.722: g_object_unref: assertion ‘G_IS_OBJECT (object)’ failed
** Message: 13:08:02.725: PRIME: No offloading required. Abort
** Message: 13:08:02.725: PRIME: is it supported? no
When I run nvidia-smi, I get 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.
Do you have any idea where this problem could come from, and what to do to solve it?
Maybe I should that I already disabled the secure boot.
Looks like you had a kernel update and either headers were not installed or the driver isn’t using dkms. How did you previously install the driver?
Please post the output of
dkms status
That’s most odd, looks like everything went awol while the tools are still there. Please reinstall the nvidia driver using Software&Updates and check dkms status again.
After reboot, everything seems to be working again… thanks a lot!
Just in case you would still be interested in it, I still attach the new bug report now that nvidia-smi and nvidia-settings are working well. nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (306.2 KB)