
But don’t get too comfy! I had encounters things didn’t work even with these installed. But if get quite a few hits for CUDA, things should be alright. The first thing to do is, NOT jump to conclusions and rigorously start typing sudo apt-get install hoping for the best! In fact the best thing in such a situation (and mostly ignored by many) is to identify what is the issue. Check the Status of the GPU with the NVIDIA System Management Interface (NVIDIA-SMI) If not, this could be due to GPU being unplugged or just nudging out from the socket because you moved the machine or something. This should give something like, 00:04.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 15f8 (rev a1)
DEBIAN HOW TO INSTALL NVIDIA DRIVERS 3D CAPABLE UPDATE
Turn the automatic updates off, so I will update things manually without breaking everything.įirst and foremost, before checking if libraries are properly installed, see of your machine physically sees the GPU by typing in, lspci | grep 3D.If fixing PATH variables didn’t fix, uninstall any existing CUDA/NVIDIA packages and try reinstalling compatible CUDA and NVIDIA packages.If CUDA/NVIDIA packages are properly installed, try fixing PATH variables.
If NVIDIA cannot see the GPU, see if you have the CUDA/NVIDIA packages installed and check if NVIDIA drivers are loaded properly. Check if my GPU is (physically) recognized by the machine. Drilling Down…Īlright, before getting into the details of troubleshooting, let me summarize what I’m going to do step by step. In fact there has been many reports about NVIDIA drivers going bananas (or missing) with other updates (evidence 1, 2, 3). So it would be much appreciated if GCP gives us a way to turn off automatic updates during initial setup. This is likely to have happened because my GCP instance bravely decided that it would be totally fine to go ahead and update everything itself and things will magically work out so much better! Well, I got news! doesn’t happen that way. Instead, it gave me the following error Error response from daemon: linux runtime spec devices: error gathering device information while adding custom device “/dev/nvidiactl”: no such file or directory Error: failed to start containers: x Nope, it didn’t work as I wanted it to and took me inside the container. Let me tell you a bit about the machine I had,īut, something really weird happened to me when I started my GCP instance and tried running the docker container yesterday, using, sudo docker start sudo docker attach What happened?