NVIDIA NVML Driver/library version mismatch

Question

When I run nvidia-smi I get the following message:

Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch

An hour ago I receiv

Answer 1

reboot. If the problem still exist:

sudo rmmod nvidia_drm
sudo rmmod nvidia_modeset
sudo rmmod nvidia
nvidia-smi

for cent/rhel

cd /boot
mv initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img.bak
dracut -vf initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

then

reboot

for debian/ubuntu

update-initramfs -u

if problem exist persist

apt install -y dkms && dkms install -m nvidia -v 440.82

Change 440.82 to your actual version.

tip: get the Nvidia driver version:

ls /usr/src

you will find the Nvidia driver dir such as nvidia-440.82

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also you can remove all Nvidia pkg and reinstall driver again

apt purge nvidia*
apt purge *cuda*

#check
apt list -i |grep nvidia
apt list -i |grep cuda