The issue I found is that the walinuxagent Extension installs the 16.04 cuda drivers on Ubuntu 18.04. The issue here is the driver has changed a bit with the inclusion of libglx-mesa0 in Ubuntu 18.04, where it was not previously in 16.04.
This causes the failure to install nvidia-driver-* package. It should have the "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX_indirect.so.0" library in the nvidia-driver-* package for 16.04, but not for 18.04 since this is already included in the libglx-mesa0 package. If you install the 18.04 Nvidia drivers, using the following instructions, it will succeed: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Linux&target_arch=x86_64&target_distro=Ubuntu&target_version=1804&target_type=debnetwork ** Package changed: linux-azure (Ubuntu) => walinuxagent (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-azure in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1866407 Title: GPU Driver extension issue (NVIDIA) Status in walinuxagent package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The Nvidia GPU driver cannot be installed for VM size Standard_NC6 but it is correctly installed for Standard_NV6. This is happening on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS. To repro this issue: 1. Create a Virtual Machine with image Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS and size Standard_NC6 2. Add extension NvidiaGpuDriver and wait for it to fail 3. Connect to the VM and try to install following package sudo apt install -y xubuntu-desktop 4. You'll see how it is unable to install it and it suggests to run apt --fix-broken install but it doesn't work either. It should work accordingly to this doc https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/extensions/hpccompute-gpu-Linux This may be related to an older bug for an older Nvidia version: bug 1753796 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/walinuxagent/+bug/1866407/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
