How to recover from a failing Nvidia driver to load?
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I have a server (running Debian 9 Stretch) with proprietary Nvidia driver installed. It is for scientific computation so headless.
So, the Nvidia driver is installed for using CUDA (during CUDA installation with a package file
cuda_10.0.130_410.48_linux.run
downloaded from Nvidia website). It used to work well.
Two days ago, I rebooted the system to enter into the BIOS to disable HyperThreading. After rebooting, the Nvidia driver was not loading. I rebooted the system several times and it was the same.
How can I bring it back?
Here is some information for your reference.
# lspci -v|grep VGA
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6G
B] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
# nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Ma
ke sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
# modprobe nvidia
modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia not found in directory /lib/modules/4.9.0-9-amd64
# nvidia-settings
ERROR: libgtk-3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libnvidia-gtk3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
libnvidia-gtk2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
ERROR: A problem occured when loading the GUI library. Please check your
installation and library path. You may need to specify this library when
calling nvidia-settings. Please run nvidia-settings --help
for usage
information.
Asked by michael morgan
(271 rep)
Jul 17, 2019, 04:37 AM
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