Nvidia-smi “NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure ..."

Graphics / Linux Linux
1

I see that many others have reported similar problems on the forum, but none of the suggested solutions worked. I’m running Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS. The drivers have been recently installed with ‘sudo apt install nvidia-driver-460’, though the problem existed even before. Running nvidia-smi gives the error in the title, while

ferdy@palmiro:~$ sudo nvidia-settings 

ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded


ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system


(nvidia-settings:6155): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 17:43:06.619: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
** Message: 17:43:06.623: PRIME: No offloading required. Abort
** Message: 17:43:06.623: PRIME: is it supported? no

and prime select confirms nvidia has already been selected as a profile

ferdy@palmiro:~$ sudo prime-select nvidia
Info: the nvidia profile is already set

Here’s the output of my
ferdy@palmiro:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 3e98
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GV104 [GeForce GTX 1180] (rev a1)
I’m also attaching the error log. Notice that secure boot is disabled.

There is no file /lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-blacklist.conf, and there never was, however I found that /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf had a line blacklist nvidiafb. I commented the line and ran sudo update-initramfs -u, but even after reboot the problem persists.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (182.9 KB)

2

Your build system is broken so the driver doesn’t compile. Please post the output of
gcc -v
and
cc -v

3

Many thanks for the quick reply!

ferdy@palmiro:~$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/lto-wrapper
OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none
OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-7/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-7 --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-bootstrap --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-libmpx --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --with-target-system-zlib --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04)
ferdy@palmiro:~$ cc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=cc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 6.5.0-2ubuntu1~18.04' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-6/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --with-as=/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-as --with-ld=/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld --program-suffix=-6 --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-libmpx --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --with-target-system-zlib --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 6.5.0 20181026 (Ubuntu 6.5.0-2ubuntu1~18.04)
4

Please set cc to gcc-7.5.0 using update-alternatives

5

Thanks, just did that with sudo update-alternatives --config cc. I then unistalled the drivers and reinstalled them again, but it still doesn’t seem to be working. My new logfile is attached

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (171.9 KB)

6

Please post the ouput of
update-alternatives --get-selections

7

Thanks, here it is

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You can also see that cc is now using the correct gcc version from cc-v below

ferdy@palmiro:~$ cc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=cc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/lto-wrapper
OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none
OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-7/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-7 --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-bootstrap --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-libmpx --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --with-target-system-zlib --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04)
8

Looks clean. Please try to dpkg-reconfigure gcc-7.5 and purge/reinstall the generic kernel headers for the running kernel.

9

Just ran

ferdy@palmiro:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure gcc-7
ferdy@palmiro:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall linux-headers-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 2,492 B of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 linux-headers-generic amd64 4.15.0.132.119 [2,492 B]
Fetched 2,492 B in 0s (0 B/s)
(Reading database ... 342293 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-headers-generic_4.15.0.132.119_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-headers-generic (4.15.0.132.119) over (4.15.0.132.119) ...
Setting up linux-headers-generic (4.15.0.132.119) ...

and

ferdy@palmiro:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-driver-460
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 431 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/restricted amd64 nvidia-driver-460 amd64 460.32.03-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 [431 kB]
Fetched 431 kB in 0s (10.6 MB/s)
(Reading database ... 342293 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-driver-460_460.32.03-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nvidia-driver-460 (460.32.03-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) over (460.32.03-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) ...
Setting up nvidia-driver-460 (460.32.03-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) ...
ferdy@palmiro:~$ sudo reboot

but the problem persists. I’m attaching the logfile

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (163.1 KB)

10

Your current kernel is 5.4.0-62-generic but the headers for 4.15 was installed. the package should be named linux-headers-5.4.0-62-generic
Looking at the date of the dkms make.log, it seems the last attempt was yesterday. Please remove the stale file
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/460.32.03/build/make.log
and post the output of
dkms status
then try to build the module using
sudo dkms install nvidia/460.32.03 --all
and again post the output of
dkms status
also, please check if a new make.log is availble in
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/460.32.03/build/

1 Like
11

Thanks, that worked great!!! I ran the commands you suggested, but without the --all in dkms, then rebooted. cheers!

12

It work for me too. Thanks a lot!!