Nvidia-smi failed fo ubuntu 24.04 kernel 6.9.9

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I don’t know if the problem is from the ubuntu 24.04, the kernal version or Nvidia driver. But it appears “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 try nvidia-smi.

My installed kernel: 6.8.0-38.38, 6.8.0-38/38_24.04, 6.9, 6.9.9.

The output of lsmod | grep nvidia is


nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight    12288  0
video                  73728  6 nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight,dell_wmi,dell_laptop,xe,i915,nouveau
wmi                    28672  11 dell_wmi_sysman,video,nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight,dell_wmi_ddv,dell_wmi,wmi_bmof,dell_smm_hwmon,dell_smbios,dell_wmi_descriptor,mxm_wmi,nouveau

The output of dkms status is

nvidia/545.29.06: added

The output of nvidia-detector is

nvidia-driver-545

The output of dpkg -l grep nvidia is

ii  libnvidia-cfg1-545:amd64                      545.29.06-0ubuntu0~gpu24.04.1            amd64        NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX configuration library
ii  libnvidia-common-545                          545.29.06-0ubuntu0~gpu24.04.1            all          Shared files used by the NVIDIA libraries
ii  libnvidia-compute-545:amd64                   545.29.06-0ubuntu0~gpu24.04.1            amd64        NVIDIA libcompute package
ii  libnvidia-decode-545:amd64                    545.29.06-0ubuntu0~gpu24.04.1            amd64        NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries
ii  libnvidia-encode-545:amd64                    545.29.06-0ubuntu0~gpu24.04.1            amd64        NVENC Video Encoding runtime library
ii  libnvidia-extra-545:amd64                     545.29.06-0ubuntu0~gpu24.04.1            amd64        Extra libraries for the NVIDIA driver
ii  libnvidia-fbc1-545:amd64                      545.29.06-0ubuntu0~gpu24.04.1            amd64        NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library
ii  libnvidia-gl-545:amd64                        545.29.06-0ubuntu0~gpu24.04.1            amd64        NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD
ii  nvidia-compute-utils-545                      545.29.06-0ubuntu0~gpu24.04.1            amd64        NVIDIA compute utilities
iF  nvidia-dkms-545                               545.29.06-0ubuntu0~gpu24.04.1            amd64        NVIDIA DKMS package
iU  nvidia-driver-545                             545.29.06-0ubuntu0~gpu24.04.1            amd64        NVIDIA driver metapackage
ii  nvidia-firmware-545-545.29.06                 545.29.06-0ubuntu0~gpu24.04.1            amd64        Firmware files used by the kernel module
ii  nvidia-kernel-common-545                      545.29.06-0ubuntu0~gpu24.04.1            amd64        Shared files used with the kernel module
ii  nvidia-kernel-source-545                      545.29.06-0ubuntu0~gpu24.04.1            amd64        NVIDIA kernel source package
ii  nvidia-prime                                  0.8.17.2                                 all          Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii  nvidia-settings                               555.42.06-0ubuntu1                       amd64        Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii  nvidia-utils-545                              545.29.06-0ubuntu0~gpu24.04.1            amd64        NVIDIA driver support binaries
ii  screen-resolution-extra                       0.18.3                                   all          Extension for the nvidia-settings control panel
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-545                 545.29.06-0ubuntu0~gpu24.04.1            amd64        NVIDIA binary Xorg driver

I spent one day fully uninstalling the driver and installing different drivers with different methods. Nothing works.

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6.9.9 on Kubuntu 24.04 and drivers 55.52.04 works fine

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Thank you! I have solved this problem by upgrading the GCC to 13+.

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