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NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver.

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  • August 15, 2025 at 1:20 pm #8821
    Ajay Kumar
    Participant

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

      I tried rebooting the VM but does not help (slice id: 683229dc-53c7-4723-ba9a-93ef3481339c).

      August 15, 2025 at 1:22 pm #8822
      Ajay Kumar
      Participant

        I have also tried to purge all CUDA, NVIDIA drivers and install from scratch. This does not work as well.

        Commands used:

        sudo apt-get purge -y ‘*nvidia*’

        sudo apt-get autoremove -y

        sudo apt-get autoclean

        sudo reboot

         

        August 15, 2025 at 2:47 pm #8825
        Komal Thareja
        Participant

          Hi Ajay,

          Your slice is currently in a Dead state, and all associated resources have been released.

          If you encounter this issue again, please share details of an active slice or VM.

          Thanks,

          Komal

          August 18, 2025 at 3:06 pm #8829
          Mert Cevik
          Moderator

            Ajay,

            The sliver that you reported the problem about was on FABRIC-FIU and it’s expired. I can see that you have recent slivers on the FIU node. Can you please let us know if you still encounter the problem or not?

            August 18, 2025 at 4:12 pm #8830
            Ajay Kumar
            Participant

              I was bounded by time deadline, thus, I deleted that slice and recreated so it working correctly now, if i still face this same issue, I would raise it here in this thread.

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