Nvidia-settings ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system

Hello, I am trying to work out how to set up this machine and get nvidia-settings to work, I get the following error

# nvidia-settings -query all

ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system



ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system

I’m not sure what is wrong with my setup, I have attached a bug report below. Thanks!!
nvidia-smi output:

Fri Sep 18 08:26:09 2020       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 440.82       Driver Version: 440.82       CUDA Version: 10.2     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  P106-100            Off  | 00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| 52%   53C    P0   104W / 120W |   4017MiB /  6080MiB |    100%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   1  P106-100            Off  | 00000000:02:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| 49%   51C    P0   102W / 120W |   4011MiB /  6080MiB |    100%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   2  P106-100            Off  | 00000000:03:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| 51%   53C    P0   104W / 120W |   4011MiB /  6080MiB |    100%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   3  P106-100            Off  | 00000000:04:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| 50%   51C    P0   105W / 120W |   4011MiB /  6080MiB |    100%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   4  P106-100            Off  | 00000000:05:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| 51%   53C    P0   103W / 120W |   4011MiB /  6080MiB |    100%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   5  P106-100            Off  | 00000000:06:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| 52%   53C    P0   102W / 120W |   4011MiB /  6080MiB |    100%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   6  P106-100            Off  | 00000000:07:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| 54%   58C    P0   103W / 120W |   4011MiB /  6080MiB |    100%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0     22518      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                             5MiB |
|    0     24302      C   ...66a322fda5b9a311003f5ad3f6/PhoenixMiner  4001MiB |
|    1     24302      C   ...66a322fda5b9a311003f5ad3f6/PhoenixMiner  4001MiB |
|    2     24302      C   ...66a322fda5b9a311003f5ad3f6/PhoenixMiner  4001MiB |
|    3     24302      C   ...66a322fda5b9a311003f5ad3f6/PhoenixMiner  4001MiB |
|    4     24302      C   ...66a322fda5b9a311003f5ad3f6/PhoenixMiner  4001MiB |
|    5     24302      C   ...66a322fda5b9a311003f5ad3f6/PhoenixMiner  4001MiB |
|    6     24302      C   ...66a322fda5b9a311003f5ad3f6/PhoenixMiner  4001MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

xorg.conf

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 440.82

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "P106-100"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Option         "SecurityTypes" "VncAuth"
    Option         "PasswordFile" "/root/.vnc/passwd"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "NoPowerConnectorCheck" "True"
    Option         "ThermalConfigurationCheck" "False"
    Option         "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "True"
    Option         "UseDisplayDevice" "none"
    Option         "Coolbits" "28"
#   SubSection     "Display"
#       Virtual     1664 936
#       Depth       24
#   EndSubSection
EndSection

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (1.5 MB)

I’m having the same issue with the same number of cards on my system though I’m using the intel driver and onboard video to run my monitors. I “think” the issue is that none of the p106-100 cards are actually running a display and that is what is causing nvidia-settings to fail. I’m going to try swapping out a p106 for a 2060 and use it as the active display and see if that corrects the issue later today.