Control: tag -1 moreinfo On 2019-05-06 08:01, Marcelo "Elppans" Klumpp wrote: > There is an ambiguous configuration error in the file > "debian/nvidia-persistenced.postinst":
> It means that you should create a "home" folder in /var/run/nvpd/, but at the > end of the code it says DO NOT CREATE the folder. > > If you want to create a folder, how can you NOT CREATE the folder you are > creating? /var/run is a volatile path, anything needed there has to be created at runtime, not during installation. And the home directory of nvpd is clearly *not* needed. > Because of this, when installing the package, the following error occurs and > the service does not start: > > Alert: The home directory /var/run/nvpd/ you specified can not be accessed: > No such file or directory > > Alert: The home directory /var/run/nvpd/ you specified can not be accessed: > No such file or directory This is just noisy. > Adding system user 'nvpd' (UID 118) ... > Adding new group 'nvpd' (GID 124) ... > Adding new user 'nvpd' (UID 118) with group 'nvpd' ... > Not creating personal directory '/var/run/nvpd/'. > Created symlink > /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/nvidia-persistenced.service → > /lib/systemd/system/nvidia-persistenced.service. > Job for nvidia-persistenced.service failed because the control process exited > with error code. > See "systemctl status nvidia-persistenced.service" and "journalctl -xe" for > details. What is the actual error encountered while starting the service? I can reproduce this (on a systemv system) with a (deliberately) mismatching kernel module loaded: Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-persistenced_418.56-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking nvidia-persistenced (418.56-1) over (390.87-1~deb9u1) ... Setting up nvidia-persistenced (418.56-1) ... Warning: The home dir /var/run/nvpd/ you specified can't be accessed: No such file or directory Adding system user `nvpd' (UID 133) ... Adding new group `nvpd' (GID 144) ... Adding new user `nvpd' (UID 133) with group `nvpd' ... Not creating home directory `/var/run/nvpd/'. Stopping NVIDIA Persistence Daemon Starting NVIDIA Persistence Daemon nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details. invoke-rc.d: initscript nvidia-persistenced, action "restart" failed. dpkg: error processing package nvidia-persistenced (--configure): installed nvidia-persistenced package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 in syslog I have: nvidia-persistenced: Started (7837) nvidia-persistenced: Failed to query NVIDIA devices. Please ensure that the NVIDIA device files (/dev/nvidia*) exist, and that user 133 has read and write permissions for those files. nvidia-persistenced: Shutdown (7837) kernel: [12558015.162992] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 410.104, but kernel: [12558015.162992] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 396.54. Please kernel: [12558015.162992] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver kernel: [12558015.162992] NVRM: components have the same version. With the correct kernel module loaded, nvidia-persistenced runs fine. Andreas
