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

Graphics / Linux Linux
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I have work station dell which has nvidia graphic card of quadro GV100 and Quadro P620

I have installed nvidia drivers using the command

sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

and then

sudo apt install nvidia-390

also installed CUDA 10

as nvcc --version command is executed i am able to see the verions as follows

nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2017 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Fri_Nov__3_21:07:56_CDT_2017
Cuda compilation tools, release 9.1, V9.1.85

now when I do nvidia-smi

i am getting

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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Please run nvidia-bug-report.sh as root and attach the resulting .gz file to your post. Hovering the mouse over an existing post of yours will reveal a paperclip icon.
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