Nvidia-settings Unable to load info from any available system on OpenSuse

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nvidia-settings

ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system

eventhough,

nvidia-smi
Sat Jun 17 23:04:50 2023       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.182.03   Driver Version: 470.182.03   CUDA Version: 11.4     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Tesla K80           Off  | 00000000:03:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   58C    P0    56W / 175W |   4712MiB / 11441MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   1  Tesla K80           Off  | 00000000:04:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   31C    P8    31W / 175W |      7MiB / 11441MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      5415      G   /usr/bin/Xorg                       3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      6267      C   python3                          4705MiB |
|    1   N/A  N/A      5415      G   /usr/bin/Xorg                       3MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Other nvidia-settings commands seam to work

nvidia-settings --version

nvidia-settings:  version 470.182.03
  The NVIDIA X Server Settings tool.

  This program is used to configure the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver.
  For more detail, please see the nvidia-settings(1) man page.

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (2.0 MB)

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I’m seeing similar behavior recently.

My old Dell laptop (Precision M4700 [Quadro K1000M]) runs Fedora 38 XFCE with nouveau disabled. It’s been running fine until the most recent kernel update.

Under kernel 6.3.8-200, the driver compiles and all runs fine.

Under kernel 6.3.11-200, I get the same errors you’re describing.

#rpm -qa |grep -i nvidia|sort

akmod-nvidia-470xx-470.182.03-2.fc38.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-470xx-470.182.03-2.fc38.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-470xx-6.3.11-200.fc38.x86_64-470.182.03-2.fc38.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-470xx-6.3.7-200.fc38.x86_64-470.182.03-2.fc38.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-470xx-6.3.8-200.fc38.x86_64-470.182.03-2.fc38.x86_64
nvidia-gpu-firmware-20230625-151.fc38.noarch
nvidia-persistenced-535.54.03-1.fc38.x86_64
nvidia-settings-470xx-470.182.03-1.fc38.x86_64
nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.10-1.fc38.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-470.182.03-1.fc38.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-cuda-470.182.03-1.fc38.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-cuda-libs-470.182.03-1.fc38.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-kmodsrc-470.182.03-1.fc38.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-libs-470.182.03-1.fc38.x86_64

For now, I’ve just reverted to the previous kernel; but I’d really like to know the root cause at work here.

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Update: As of the 6.4.9 kernel, this problem persists.