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nvidia-smi
/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe: unrecognized option: "-s"

ERROR: Invalid commandline, please run `/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe --help` for usage information.

/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe: unrecognized option: "-s"

ERROR: Invalid commandline, please run `/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe --help` for usage information.

Tue Oct  6 22:37:24 2020      
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 450.80.02    Driver Version: 450.80.02    CUDA Version: 11.0     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GTX 166...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   49C    P8    17W / 125W |    547MiB /  5943MiB |     13%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      1215      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                 28MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1320      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell               70MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      2951      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                198MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3085      G   ...mviewer/tv_bin/TeamViewer        2MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3086      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell              137MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3762      G   ...AAAAAAAAA= --shared-files       27MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      5431    C+G   ...al/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUXAMD64       74MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Any idea on what to do?

Adupa Vasista
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5 Answers5

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I also faced issue after updating my driver to 455.45.01, above instructions works, This would also solve the issue, without adding PPA.

wget http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64/nvidia-modprobe_455.45.01-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

and then install with

sudo dpkg -i nvidia-modprobe_455.45.01-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
muru
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user1157663
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9

I had exactly the same problem after recent update to 450.80.2. In my case the following got the issue resolved:

  1. Add / enable PPA http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64
  2. sudo apt-get update
  3. Optionally verify candidates are available: sudo apt-cache policy nvidia-modprobe
  4. sudo apt-get install nvidia-modprobe=450.80.02-0ubuntu1
  5. Remove / disable PPA if you do not intend using it soon again.
Brian D
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Krzysztof Mierzejewski
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1

Here is what worked for me (basically it is Keivan's comment on the accepted answer, but downloading using https instead of http).

# Change 'nvidia-modprobe_470.42.01-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb' below to the latest version at the time you execute (see the link to find it)    
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64/nvidia-modprobe_470.42.01-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i nvidia-modprobe_470.42.01-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Giuseppe
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0

I got that same message trying to run 'nvidia-smi' after updating, but then about 5 minutes later...no error message. I'm thinking the GPU had to "warm up" or the persistence daemon hadn't fully started. Anyway, it "fixed itself" without my having to do anything.

Anne Salemme
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These answers helped me. Do not forget to select proper Ubuntu version. Mine is 20.04 So for me these commands worked:

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu$(cat /etc/os-release | grep VERSION_ID | cut -b 13,14,16,17)/x86_64/nvidia-modprobe_$(nvidia-smi | grep Driver | awk '{print $6;}')-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i nvidia-modprobe_$(nvidia-smi | grep Driver | awk '{print $6;}')-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

That should work in more cases I think

Ger Katu
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