cuda broken after upgrade (x86_64, Jessie, GTX980)

[Alois Schloegl]

On 2016-02-29 02:29, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> 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
> 


Hi Andreas,


thanks for the response. When running the bugreport tool, it says that
6.5 is outdated, and I should try cuda 7.0. I'll do that, and depending
on the outcome submit a bug report.


Best,
  Alois