Retitling to reflect the fact that nvidia-persistenced was removed in artful. The /usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced path referred to by nvidia- persistenced.service doesn’t exist in any package now.
** Summary changed: - /lib/systemd/system/nvidia-persistenced.service belongs in nvidia-persistenced package, not nvidia-3## + nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced: No such file or directory ** Description changed: - If you install the nvidia-375 package without the nvidia-persistenced - package, you still get an enabled nvidia-persistenced.service that fails - to start up on boot. To fix this, /lib/systemd/system/nvidia- - persistenced.service (and associated maintainer script snippets) should - be moved to the nvidia-persistenced package. + If you install the nvidia-384 package, you get an enabled nvidia + persistenced.service that fails to start up on boot, because it tries to + launch /usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced which doesn’t exist (the binary is + actually at /usr/lib/nvidia-384/bin/nvidia-persistenced). $ systemctl status nvidia-persistenced.service ● nvidia-persistenced.service - NVIDIA Persistence Daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-persistenced.service; static; vendor preset: enabled) - Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2017-05-24 03:51:28 EDT; 7min ago - Process: 1281 ExecStopPost=/bin/rm -rf /var/run/nvidia-persistenced (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) - Process: 1279 ExecStart=/usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced --user nvidia-persistenced --no-persistence-mode --verbose (code=exited, status=203/EXEC) - CPU: 1ms + Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2017-12-20 19:20:45 EST; 7min ago + Process: 1265 ExecStopPost=/bin/rm -rf /var/run/nvidia-persistenced (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) + Process: 1262 ExecStart=/usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced --user nvidia-persistenced --no-persistence-mode --verbose (code=exited, status=203/EXEC) - May 24 03:51:28 change-mode systemd[1]: Starting NVIDIA Persistence Daemon... - May 24 03:51:28 change-mode systemd[1279]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced: No such file or directory - May 24 03:51:28 change-mode systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203 - May 24 03:51:28 change-mode systemd[1]: Failed to start NVIDIA Persistence Daemon. - May 24 03:51:28 change-mode systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Unit entered failed state. - May 24 03:51:28 change-mode systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. + Dec 20 19:20:45 change-mode systemd[1]: Starting NVIDIA Persistence Daemon... + Dec 20 19:20:45 change-mode systemd[1262]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed to execute command: No such file or directory + Dec 20 19:20:45 change-mode systemd[1262]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced: No such file or directory + Dec 20 19:20:45 change-mode systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203 + Dec 20 19:20:45 change-mode systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. + Dec 20 19:20:45 change-mode systemd[1]: Failed to start NVIDIA Persistence Daemon. ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-384 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1693123 Title: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/bin /nvidia-persistenced: No such file or directory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia/+bug/1693123/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs