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

Had the issue too. (I'm running ubuntu 18.04)

What I did:

dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia

Then sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-381 (and every duplicate version, in my case I had 381, 384 and 387)

Then sudo ubuntu-drivers devices to list what's available

And I choose sudo apt install nvidia-driver-430

After that, nvidia-smi gave the correct output (no need to reboot). But I suppose you can reboot when in doubt.

I also followed this installation to reinstall cuda+cudnn.