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NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running

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renu.khorwal January 10, 2024, 5:30am 1

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (606.5 KB)
I have tried following things so far:

Secure boot off
purging nvidia driver and reinstalling (535)
3 reinstalling kernel headers

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