Nvidia articles---Nvidia graphics card Failed to initialize NVML Driver/library version mismatch error solution

This article records the error Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch error solution.

Problem recurrence

$ nvidia-smi 

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Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch

problem analysis

• The NVIDIA kernel driver version is inconsistent with the system driver

Check the kernel version used by the graphics card driver

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version

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NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  470.74  Mon Sep 13 23:09:15 UTC 2021
GCC version:  gcc version 11.3.0 (Ubuntu 11.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 

• The kernel version Kernel Module is 470.74, and the system kernel is 22.04

View system driver logs

cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep nvidia

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2023-02-07 15:00:02 status installed libnvidia-ifr1-470:i386 470.161.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
2023-02-07 15:00:02 remove libnvidia-ifr1-470:i386 470.161.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 <none>
2023-02-07 15:00:02 status half-configured libnvidia-ifr1-470:i386 470.161.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
2023-02-07 15:00:02 status half-installed libnvidia-ifr1-470:i386 2023-02-07 15:01:18 status config-files libnvidia-extra-470:amd64 470.161.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
2023-02-07 15:01:18 status not-installed libnvidia-extra-470:amd64 <none>
2023-02-07 15:01:18 status installed libnvidia-fbc1-470:amd64 470.161.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
2023-02-07 15:01:18 remove libnvidia-fbc1-470:amd64 470.161.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 <none>
2023-02-07 15:01:18 status half-configured libnvidia-fbc1-470:amd64 470.161.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
2023-02-07 15:01:18 status half-installed libnvidia-fbc1-470:amd64 470.161.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
2023-02-07 15:01:18 status config-files libnvidia-fbc1-470:amd64 470.161.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
2023-02-07 15:01:18 status not-installed libnvidia-fbc1-470:amd64 <none>
2023-02-07 15:01:18 status installed libnvidia-ifr1-470:amd64 470.161.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
2023-02-07 15:01:18 remove libnvidia-ifr1-470:amd64 470.161.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 <none>
2023-02-07 15:01:18 status half-configured libnvidia-ifr1-470:amd64 470.161.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
2023-02-07 15:01:18 status half-installed libnvidia-ifr1-470:amd64 470.161.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
2023-02-07 15:01:18 status config-files libnvidia-ifr1-470:amd64 470.161.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
2023-02-07 15:01:18 status not-installed libnvidia-ifr1-470:amd64 <none>
2023-02-07 15:01:18 status installed nvidia-settings:amd64 510.47.03-0ubuntu1
2023-02-07 15:01:18 remove nvidia-settings:amd64 510.47.03-0ubuntu1 <none>
2023-02-07 15:01:18 status half-configured nvidia-settings:amd64 510.47.03-0ubuntu1
2023-02-07 15:01:18 status half-installed nvidia-settings:amd64 510.47.03-0ubuntu1
2023-02-07 15:01:19 status config-files nvidia-settings:amd64 510.47.03-0ubuntu1

• You can see that the driver of 510.47.03 of the system kernel 22.04 has been installed

view driver

sudo dpkg --list | grep nvidia-*

• The inconsistency between the actual system kernel version and the version required by the driver is the root cause of the problem

solution

• Uninstall the existing driver and reinstall

Uninstall the driver

sudo /usr/bin/nvidia-uninstall
sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-*
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get purge libnvidia*

• until the command outputs nothing

sudo dpkg --list | grep nvidia-*

• re-install

sudo chmod a+x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.80.02.run
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.80.02.run -no-x-check -no-nouveau-check -no-opengl-files

–no-opengl-files 只安装驱动文件,不安装OpenGL文件
–no-x-check 安装驱动时不检查X服务
–no-nouveau-check 安装驱动时不检查nouveau

View driver update results

$ nvidia-smi

To prevent such problems from recurring, local updates for the current version can be disabled with the following command:

sudo apt-mark hold nvidia-470

Note: I have not used

reference

• https://blog.csdn.net/qq_40200387/article/details/90341107
• https://blog.csdn.net/zywvvd/article/details/115500412