# CUDA driver initialization failed

## post by agg on Nov 3, 2022

agg

Nov 2022

Hi! When I try to run any sort of Pytorch code (e.g. torch.cuda.is_available()), I get the following error:

```python
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/torch/cuda/__init__.py:83: UserWarning: CUDA initialization: CUDA driver initialization failed, you might not have a CUDA gpu. (Triggered internally at  ../c10/cuda/CUDAFunctions.cpp:109.)
  return torch._C._cuda_getDeviceCount() > 0
```

Is there anything I can do about this? nvidia-smi says I have “NVIDIA-SMI 515.65.01 Driver Version: 515.65.01 CUDA Version: 11.7”.

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