NVIDIA-SMI couldn't find libnvidia-ml.so library in your system

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Hello

I followed these steps from Black screen with nvidia turned on instead intel and Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch - #10 by igo25658578

uninstall all nvidia packages
download runfile 495.29.05 https://http.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/495.29.05/ 28
install that with option -b
immediately afterwards, uninstall it again with option --uninstall
run
dpkg -l |grep nvidia
and
ls -l /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/*nvidia* /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcuda*
again to make sure really no nvidia package or file is installed anymore.

however, now the following error arise:

❯ nvidia-smi               
NVIDIA-SMI couldn't find libnvidia-ml.so library in your system. Please make sure that the NVIDIA Display Driver is properly installed and present in your system.
Please also try adding directory that contains libnvidia-ml.so to your system PATH.

Please advise.

Hud

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I don’t know why you did that. Those were steps to remove leftovers from a previous driver install.
Please install the driver from your distro’s repo.

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Sorry for this very late reply. Somehow the issue seems more related to when I run nvidia-smi Error nvidia-smi :Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch - #15 by morcegaocs

I’m posting some of the things I saw from the other link - but if I need to start a new thread let me know.

❯ sudo dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii  libnvidia-compute-525:amd64                525.78.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1          amd64        NVIDIA libcompute package
ii  libnvidia-container-tools                  1.12.0-1                            amd64        NVIDIA container runtime library (command-line tools)
ii  libnvidia-container1:amd64                 1.12.0-1                            amd64        NVIDIA container runtime library
rc  linux-modules-nvidia-510-5.13.0-30-generic 5.13.0-30.33~20.04.1                amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.13.0-30
rc  linux-modules-nvidia-510-5.13.0-35-generic 5.13.0-35.40~20.04.1                amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.13.0-35
rc  linux-modules-nvidia-510-5.13.0-37-generic 5.13.0-37.42~20.04.1                amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.13.0-37
rc  linux-modules-nvidia-510-5.13.0-39-generic 5.13.0-39.44~20.04.1                amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.13.0-39
rc  linux-modules-nvidia-510-5.15.0-48-generic 5.15.0-48.54~20.04.1                amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.15.0-48
rc  linux-modules-nvidia-510-5.15.0-50-generic 5.15.0-50.56~20.04.1+1              amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.15.0-50
rc  linux-modules-nvidia-510-5.15.0-52-generic 5.15.0-52.58~20.04.1+1              amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.15.0-52
rc  linux-modules-nvidia-510-5.15.0-53-generic 5.15.0-53.59~20.04.1+1              amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.15.0-53
rc  linux-modules-nvidia-510-5.15.0-56-generic 5.15.0-56.62~20.04.1                amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.15.0-56
rc  linux-objects-nvidia-510-5.13.0-30-generic 5.13.0-30.33~20.04.1                amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.13.0-30 (objects)
rc  linux-objects-nvidia-510-5.13.0-35-generic 5.13.0-35.40~20.04.1                amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.13.0-35 (objects)
rc  linux-objects-nvidia-510-5.13.0-37-generic 5.13.0-37.42~20.04.1                amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.13.0-37 (objects)
rc  linux-objects-nvidia-510-5.13.0-39-generic 5.13.0-39.44~20.04.1                amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.13.0-39 (objects)
rc  linux-objects-nvidia-510-5.15.0-48-generic 5.15.0-48.54~20.04.1                amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.15.0-48 (objects)
rc  linux-objects-nvidia-510-5.15.0-50-generic 5.15.0-50.56~20.04.1+1              amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.15.0-50 (objects)
rc  linux-objects-nvidia-510-5.15.0-52-generic 5.15.0-52.58~20.04.1+1              amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.15.0-52 (objects)
rc  linux-objects-nvidia-510-5.15.0-53-generic 5.15.0-53.59~20.04.1+1              amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.15.0-53 (objects)
rc  linux-objects-nvidia-510-5.15.0-56-generic 5.15.0-56.62~20.04.1+1              amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.15.0-56 (objects)
rc  linux-objects-nvidia-525-5.15.0-56-generic 5.15.0-56.62~20.04.1+1              amd64        Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.15.0-56 (objects)
rc  nvidia-compute-utils-525                   525.60.11-0ubuntu0.20.04.2          amd64        NVIDIA compute utilities
ii  nvidia-container-toolkit                   1.12.0-1                            amd64        NVIDIA Container toolkit
ii  nvidia-container-toolkit-base              1.12.0-1                            amd64        NVIDIA Container Toolkit Base
rc  nvidia-dkms-525                            525.60.11-0ubuntu0.20.04.2          amd64        NVIDIA DKMS package
rc  nvidia-kernel-common-525                   525.60.11-0ubuntu0.20.04.2          amd64        Shared files used with the kernel module
rc  nvidia-prime                               0.8.16~0.20.04.2                    all          Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
rc  nvidia-settings                            470.57.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.3          amd64        Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
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libnvidia-compute (which provides libnvidia-ml) is version 525.78.01 while the rest of the driver is version 525.60.11. Please remove and reinstall the driver in version 525.78.01

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