### NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver

**Date:** Jan 29, 2018  
**Category:** Technical Help

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**User Response:**  
Worked perfectly after Reboot!

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**User Response:**  
We still have the issue after updating the drivers. (Admin edit: sudo reboot fixes this)

```bash  
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends nvidia-384 libcuda1-384 nvidia-opencl-icd-384  
Reading package lists... Done  
Building dependency tree  
Reading state information... Done  
libcuda1-384 is already the newest version (384.130-1)  
```

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