Seems random generation is broken Error

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Hi, all

I am trying to launch NVIDIA Nsight Systems 2020.2.3 on my ubuntu 18.04.

However, I got this error message.

Seems random generation is broken on your system. Possibly, you need to update your BIOS and/or kernel. The application will now exit.

As a workaround you can try to start the NVIDIA Nsight Systems with the QT_NO_CPU_FEATURE=rdrand environment variable.

In order to solve this problem, I re-installed ubuntu 18.04, and try to launch nsight system again. But it shows the same error message.

What I did after reinstallation ubuntu 18.04 is
just installing graphic driver and chrome.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
$ sudo reboot

$ wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable
$ sudo rm -rf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list

I also checked the following command to check whether there is any problem with generating random number.

(base) yjkim@casys:~$ cat /dev/urandom | hexdump | head -n 2
0000000 6499 08f9 1d2a d38c bc15 9bf2 da21 b98d
0000010 840b eb30 e879 859a b8fa f39a 68df be0d

I did everything I could do, and I don’t know what to do next.

Any help will be very grateful.

Thanks in advance.

Regards.

p.s. I installed NVIDIA Nsight System 20.2.3 using jetpack 4.4 DP.

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