cuda broken after upgrade (x86_64, Jessie, GTX980)

[Andreas Beckmann]

Hi Alois,

please file a proper bugreport, probably against nvidia-cuda-toolkit.

On 2016-02-29 00:53, Alois Schloegl wrote:
> When trying to upgrade cuda on a Debian/Jessie machine with 4 GTX980
> cards, cuda became unusable. nvidia-smi reports this error:

Upgrading from which working version combination?

> # nvidia-smi
> Failed to initialize NVML: GPU access blocked by the operating system

Do I interpret the '#' as "that failed as root" correctly?

> Still, nvidia-detect will report the same message (shown above). This
> seems like a bug to me.

nvidia-detect does not take into account what you have installed. It's
primarily intended to give hints for the initial installation.


Andreas