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Getting "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" every time I try to run `watch` with `nvidia-smi`

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I'm currently using GPUs on an Ubuntu server to run machine learning models. I often like to use the watch command in order to monitor the GPU statuses like watch -n 1 nvidia-smi. It usually works fine, but I noticed that for one of the servers I get the error:
watch: /usr/local/lib/libncursesw.so.6: no version information available (required by watch)
watch: /usr/local/lib/libncursesw.so.6: no version information available (required by watch)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
I've tried sudo apt-get install libncursesw6 and get libncursesw6 is already the newest version (6.2-0ubuntu2).. Is there anything else I can do to fix this error? ### Edit The output of lddtree $PATH_TO_WATCH is:
watch => /usr/bin/watch (interpreter => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)
    libncursesw.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libncursesw.so.6
        libtinfow.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/./libtinfow.so.6
    libtinfo.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libtinfo.so.6
    libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
        ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
Asked by Sean (191 rep)
Oct 17, 2022, 09:01 AM
Last activity: Jul 11, 2025, 12:08 AM