NVIDIA Persistence Daemon Failed to Start

[sanusiii]

Hi, I suddenly noticed that I started getting this error “[FAILED] Failed to start NVIDIA persistence Daemon” at start up. I tried following the solution discussed in [Solved] Issue with nvidia driver in Linux Ubuntu 18.04 and CUDA 11.4 . After following all the steps without much luck, I still get that error and 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.” when I ran nvidia-smi.

I have the bug report attached here as well-
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (176.0 KB)

I am clueless as to how to resolve these problems. I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks

[sanusiii]

Hi @senpaibayo005, thank you for your response. This did not work. it says the ppa is not supported by NVIDIA so has to be updated manually. Thank you all the same.

[generix]

There are no kernel modules installed. Please install the kernel headers
sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
and post the output of
dkms status

[sanusiii]

Hi @generix, thank you for your reply. I installed the kernel using the command above, but the dkms status shows nothing.

This is the bug report after taking the steps
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (176.3 KB)

[generix]

How did you initially install the driver? Please post the output of
dpkg -l |grep nvidia

[sanusiii]

hi @generix

Here is the output of dpkg -l |grep nvidia

[sanusiii]

I installed using

sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-510

sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-470

[generix]

There were precompiled, signed modules for the 5.4 kernel installed but you’re using the liquorix kernel. Please uninstall the 470 driver and use the graphics driver ppa like @senpaibayo005 mentioned to install the 515 driver.

[sanusiii]

Hi @generix this worked. Thanks