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Can’t install nvidia-smi

post by shay9000 on Jan 2, 2023

I can’t use nvidia-smi

$ nvidia-smi

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

tried:

$ sudo apt-get install -f nvidia-384 libcuda1-384 nvidia-opencl-icd-384

Reading package lists… Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information… Done

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libcuda1-384 : Depends: nvidia-headless-390 but it is not going to be installed
 nvidia-384 : Depends: nvidia-driver-390 but it is not going to be installed
 nvidia-opencl-icd-384 : Depends: nvidia-headless-390 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

post by cody_b on Jan 2, 2023

If you haven’t already, check out the How do I remove and reinstall Lambda Stack FAQ.

Let us know if it fixes the issue you’re encountering.

post by shay9000 on Jan 4, 2023

Unfortunately, I tried that and it didn’t help.

post by cody_b on Jan 4, 2023

Please run the following command and upload the file named nvidia-smi-troubleshooting.txt that the command produces:

sudo apt update &> nvidia-smi-troubleshooting.txt

The command will show if you have the latest packages from your configured apt repositories.

post by shay9000 on Jan 4, 2023

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

Hit:1 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal InRelease
Get:2 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-updates InRelease [114 kB]
Get:3 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-backports InRelease [108 kB]
Hit:4 [https://download.sublimetext.com](https://download.sublimetext.com/) apt/stable/ InRelease
Get:5 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-updates/main amd64 Packages [2277 kB]
Get:6 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-updates/main i386 Packages [764 kB]
Get:7 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [275 kB]
Get:8 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-updates/main amd64 c-n-f Metadata [16.1 kB]
Get:9 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-updates/universe amd64 Packages [1011 kB]
Get:10 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-updates/universe i386 Packages [705 kB]
Get:11 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-updates/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [408 kB]
Get:12 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-updates/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [944 B]
Get:13 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-backports/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [7992 B]
Get:14 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [30.5 kB]
Get:15 [Index of /ubuntu](http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-security InRelease [114 kB]
Hit:16 [Index of /compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x86_64](http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x86_64) InRelease
Err:16 [Index of /compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x86_64](http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x86_64) InRelease
The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY A4B469963BF863CC
Hit:17 [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal InRelease
Get:18 [Index of /ubuntu](http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [40.7 kB]
Get:19 [Index of /ubuntu](http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-security/main amd64 c-n-f Metadata [11.6 kB]
Get:20 [Index of /ubuntu](http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [93.8 kB]
Get:21 [Index of /ubuntu](http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-security/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [940 B]
Hit:22 [Index of /repos/code/](http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code) stable InRelease
Fetched 5978 kB in 4s (1408 kB/s)
Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
4 packages can be upgraded. Run ‘apt list --upgradable’ to see them.
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: [Index of /compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x86_64](http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x86_64) InRelease: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY A4B469963BF863CC
W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:57 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lambda-repository.list:1
W: Target Packages (main/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:57 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lambda-repository.list:1
W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:57 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lambda-repository.list:1
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:57 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lambda-repository.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:57 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lambda-repository.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:57 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lambda-repository.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons-small (main/dep11/icons-48x48.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:57 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lambda-repository.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons (main/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:57 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lambda-repository.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons-hidpi (main/dep11/icons-64x64@2.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:57 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lambda-repository.list:1
W: Target CNF (main/cnf/Commands-amd64) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:57 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lambda-repository.list:1
W: Target CNF (main/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:57 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lambda-repository.list:1

post by cody_b on Jan 5, 2023

The http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x86_64 NVIDIA repo is probably what’s causing the problem.

You can run grep -r developer.download.nvidia.com /etc/apt/sources.list.d to find the APT list that contains the NVIDIA repo. Delete the list.

Run sudo apt update &> nvidia-smi-troubleshooting.txt again so we can see the new output.

(Also, you might want to comment out line 57 of /etc/apt/sources.list to suppress all the […] is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:57 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lambda-repository.list:1 warnings you’re receiving.)

post by shay9000 on Jan 6, 2023

I commented out lines 57 and 59 of /etc/apt/sources.list

56: ## Lambda Labs software repository
57: #deb [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal main
58: # deb-src [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal main
59: #deb [Index of /compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x86_64](http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x86_64/) >
60: # deb-src [http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x8](http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x8) >

and commented out line 1 of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lambda-repository.list which now looks like this

1: #deb [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal main
2: # deb-src [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal main

Now the output looks like this:

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

Hit:1 [Index of /ubuntu](http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-security InRelease
Hit:2 [Index of /repos/code/](http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code) stable InRelease
Hit:3 [https://download.sublimetext.com](https://download.sublimetext.com/) apt/stable/ InRelease
Hit:4 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal InRelease
Hit:5 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-updates InRelease
Hit:6 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-backports InRelease
Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
21 packages can be upgraded. Run ‘apt list --upgradable’ to see them.

If I uncomment line 1 of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lambda-repository.list which now looks like this

1: deb [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal main
2: # deb-src [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal main

The output looks like this:

Hit:1 [Index of /repos/code/](http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code) stable InRelease
Get:2 [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal InRelease [3176 B]
Hit:3 [https://download.sublimetext.com](https://download.sublimetext.com/) apt/stable/ InRelease
Get:4 [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal/main amd64 Packages [92.1 kB]
Hit:5 [Index of /ubuntu](http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-security InRelease
Get:6 [http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu](http://archive.lambdalabs.com/ubuntu) focal/main i386 Packages [30.8 kB]
Hit:7 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal InRelease
Hit:8 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-updates InRelease
Hit:9 [Index of /ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) focal-backports InRelease
Fetched 126 kB in 4s (35.0 kB/s)
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done.
16 packages can be upgraded. Run ‘apt list --upgradable’ to see them.

post by cody_b on Jan 12, 2023

Run sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade.

That should upgrade all of your packages installed from APT repositories, including Lambda Stack—and fix the problem you’re experiencing with package dependencies being unmet.

post by shay9000 on Jan 25, 2023

This was fixed by reinstalling a new recovery linux image (formatting the workstation).