Hello,
I’m having the hardest time trying to install the latest beta driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18.run, downloaded from the website) on my dual-GPU laptop with Ubuntu 18.04.
At first I get the message “The distribution-provided pre-install script failed! Are you sure you want to continue?”
If I decide to ignore this and continue anyway, installation is attempted but fails with the message:
“ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module ‘nvidia.ko’. This happens most frequently when this kernel module was built against the wrong or improperly configured kernel sources, with a version of gcc that differs from the one used to build the target kernel, or if another driver, such as nouveau, is present and prevents the NVIDIA kernel module from obtaining ownership of the NVIDIA GPU(s), or no NVIDIA GPU installed in this system is supported by this NVIDIA Linux graphics driver release”
You can find below the installation log:
nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Sat Apr 21 16:18:53 2018
installer version: 396.18
PATH: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
nvidia-installer command line:
./nvidia-installer
Unable to load: nvidia-installer ncurses v6 user interface
Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> Detected 8 CPUs online; setting concurrency level to 8.
-> Installing NVIDIA driver version 396.18.
-> Running distribution scripts
executing: '/usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install'...
-> done.
-> The distribution-provided pre-install script failed! Are you sure you want to continue? (Answer: Continue installation)
-> Performing CC sanity check with CC="/usr/bin/cc".
-> Kernel source path: '/lib/modules/4.15.0-12-generic/build'
-> Kernel output path: '/lib/modules/4.15.0-12-generic/build'
-> Performing Compiler check.
-> Performing Dom0 check.
-> Performing Xen check.
-> Performing PREEMPT_RT check.
-> Performing vgpu_kvm check.
-> Cleaning kernel module build directory.
executing: 'cd ./kernel; /usr/bin/make -k -j8 clean NV_EXCLUDE_KERNEL_MODULES="" SYSSRC="/lib/modules/4.15.0-12-generic/build" SYSOUT="/lib/modules/4.15.0-12-generic/build"'...
rm -f -r conftest
make[1]: ingresso nella directory "/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-12-generic"
make[1]: uscita dalla directory "/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-12-generic"
-> Building kernel modules
executing: 'cd ./kernel; /usr/bin/make -k -j8 NV_EXCLUDE_KERNEL_MODULES="" SYSSRC="/lib/modules/4.15.0-12-generic/build" SYSOUT="/lib/modules/4.15.0-12-generic/build"'...
make[1]: ingresso nella directory "/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-12-generic"
Makefile:962: "Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel"
SYMLINK /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-kernel.o
SYMLINK /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-kernel.o
CONFTEST: INIT_WORK
CONFTEST: remap_pfn_range
CONFTEST: hash__remap_4k_pfn
CONFTEST: follow_pfn
CONFTEST: vmap
CONFTEST: set_pages_uc
CONFTEST: set_memory_array_uc
CONFTEST: set_memory_uc
CONFTEST: change_page_attr
CONFTEST: pci_get_class
CONFTEST: pci_choose_state
CONFTEST: vm_insert_page
CONFTEST: acpi_device_id
CONFTEST: acquire_console_sem
CONFTEST: console_lock
CONFTEST: kmem_cache_create
CONFTEST: on_each_cpu
CONFTEST: smp_call_function
CONFTEST: acpi_evaluate_integer
CONFTEST: ioremap_cache
CONFTEST: ioremap_wc
CONFTEST: acpi_walk_namespace
CONFTEST: pci_domain_nr
CONFTEST: pci_dma_mapping_error
CONFTEST: sg_alloc_table
CONFTEST: sg_init_table
CONFTEST: pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot
CONFTEST: get_num_physpages
CONFTEST: efi_enabled
CONFTEST: proc_create_data
CONFTEST: pde_data
CONFTEST: proc_remove
CONFTEST: pm_vt_switch_required
CONFTEST: xen_ioemu_inject_msi
CONFTEST: phys_to_dma
CONFTEST: get_dma_ops
CONFTEST: write_cr4
CONFTEST: of_get_property
CONFTEST: of_find_node_by_phandle
CONFTEST: of_node_to_nid
CONFTEST: pnv_pci_get_npu_dev
CONFTEST: of_get_ibm_chip_id
CONFTEST: for_each_online_node
CONFTEST: node_end_pfn
CONFTEST: pci_bus_address
CONFTEST: pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device
CONFTEST: pci_remove_bus_device
CONFTEST: request_threaded_irq
CONFTEST: register_cpu_notifier
CONFTEST: cpuhp_setup_state
CONFTEST: dma_map_resource
CONFTEST: backlight_device_register
CONFTEST: register_acpi_notifier
CONFTEST: timer_setup
CONFTEST: remap_page_range
CONFTEST: address_space_init_once
CONFTEST: kbasename
CONFTEST: list_cut_position
CONFTEST: fatal_signal_pending
CONFTEST: vzalloc
CONFTEST: wait_on_bit_lock_argument_count
CONFTEST: bitmap_clear
CONFTEST: usleep_range
CONFTEST: radix_tree_empty
CONFTEST: radix_tree_replace_slot
CONFTEST: drm_dev_unref
CONFTEST: drm_reinit_primary_mode_group
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_set_mode_for_crtc
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_clean_old_fb
CONFTEST: get_user_pages_remote
CONFTEST: get_user_pages
CONFTEST: drm_gem_object_lookup
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_state_free
CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_gem_prime_res_obj
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_helper_disable_all
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_helper_set_config
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_helper_connector_dpms
CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_gpl_of_node_to_nid
CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_present_swiotlb_map_sg_attrs
CONFTEST: i2c_adapter
CONFTEST: pm_message_t
CONFTEST: irq_handler_t
CONFTEST: acpi_device_ops
CONFTEST: acpi_op_remove
CONFTEST: outer_flush_all
CONFTEST: proc_dir_entry
CONFTEST: scatterlist
CONFTEST: sg_table
CONFTEST: file_operations
CONFTEST: vm_operations_struct
CONFTEST: atomic_long_type
CONFTEST: pci_save_state
CONFTEST: file_inode
CONFTEST: task_struct
CONFTEST: kuid_t
CONFTEST: dma_ops
CONFTEST: dma_map_ops
CONFTEST: noncoherent_swiotlb_dma_ops
CONFTEST: vm_fault_present
CONFTEST: vm_fault_has_address
CONFTEST: backlight_properties_type
CONFTEST: fault_flags
CONFTEST: atomic64_type
CONFTEST: address_space
CONFTEST: backing_dev_info
CONFTEST: mm_context_t
CONFTEST: vm_ops_fault_removed_vma_arg
CONFTEST: pnv_npu2_init_context
CONFTEST: drm_bus_present
CONFTEST: drm_bus_has_bus_type
CONFTEST: drm_bus_has_get_irq
CONFTEST: drm_bus_has_get_name
CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_legacy_dev_list
CONFTEST: drm_driver_has_set_busid
CONFTEST: drm_crtc_state_has_connectors_changed
CONFTEST: drm_init_function_args
CONFTEST: drm_mode_connector_list_update_has_merge_type_bits_arg
CONFTEST: drm_helper_mode_fill_fb_struct
CONFTEST: drm_master_drop_has_from_release_arg
CONFTEST: drm_driver_unload_has_int_return_type
CONFTEST: kref_has_refcount_of_type_refcount_t
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_helper_crtc_destroy_state_has_crtc_arg
CONFTEST: drm_crtc_helper_funcs_has_atomic_enable
CONFTEST: drm_old_atomic_state_iterators_present
CONFTEST: drm_mode_object_find_has_file_priv_arg
CONFTEST: dom0_kernel_present
CONFTEST: nvidia_vgpu_kvm_build
CONFTEST: nvidia_grid_build
CONFTEST: drm_available
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_available
CONFTEST: drm_atomic_modeset_nonblocking_commit_available
CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_gpl_refcount_inc
CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_gpl_refcount_dec_and_test
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CC [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-crtc.o
CC [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-encoder.o
CC [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-connector.o
CC [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem.o
CC [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-fb.o
CC [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-modeset.o
CC [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-prime-fence.o
CC [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-linux.o
CC [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-helper.o
CC [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-drm/nv-pci-table.o
CC [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem-nvkms-memory.o
CC [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem-user-memory.o
ld -r -o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-interface.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-frontend.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-instance.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-acpi.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-chrdev.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-cray.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-dma.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-gvi.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-i2c.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-mempool.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-mmap.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-p2p.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidi
a/nv-pat.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-procfs.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-usermap.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-vm.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-vtophys.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/os-interface.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/os-mlock.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/os-pci.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/os-registry.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/os-usermap.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-modeset-interface.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-pci-table.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-kthread-q.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-kthread-q-selftest.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-memdbg.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_
64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-ibmnpu.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-report-err.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv-rsync.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nv_uvm_interface.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia/nvlink_linux.o
ld -r -o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o
LD [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia.o
LD [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-uvm.o
LD [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-modeset.o
LD [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-drm.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 4 modules
CC /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o
CC /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o
CC /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o
CC /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko
LD [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko
LD [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia.ko
LD [M] /tmp/selfgz538/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.18/kernel/nvidia-uvm.ko
make[1]: uscita dalla directory "/usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-12-generic"
-> done.
-> Kernel module compilation complete.
ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'. This happens most frequently when this kernel module was built against the wrong or improperly configured kernel sources, with a version of gcc that differs from the one used to build the target kernel, or if another driver, such as nouveau, is present and prevents the NVIDIA kernel module from obtaining ownership of the NVIDIA GPU(s), or no NVIDIA GPU installed in this system is supported by this NVIDIA Linux graphics driver release.
Please see the log entries 'Kernel module load error' and 'Kernel messages' at the end of the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for more information.
-> Kernel module load error: No such device
-> Kernel messages:
[ 76.577685] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 76.583702] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 239
[ 76.583849] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: can't find IRQ for PCI INT A; please try using pci=biosirq
[ 76.583851] NVRM: Can't find an IRQ for your NVIDIA card!
[ 76.583851] NVRM: Please check your BIOS settings.
[ 76.583852] NVRM: [Plug & Play OS] should be set to NO
[ 76.583852] NVRM: [Assign IRQ to VGA] should be set to YES
[ 76.583855] nvidia: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -1
[ 76.583862] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s).
[ 76.583863] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized!
[ 76.583923] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 239
[ 92.946181] audit: type=1400 audit(1524320391.348:2): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="libreoffice-xpdfimport" pid=4800 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 92.946334] audit: type=1400 audit(1524320391.348:3): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="libreoffice-oopslash" pid=4797 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 92.946613] audit: type=1400 audit(1524320391.348:4): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/bin/man" pid=4796 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 92.946615] audit: type=1400 audit(1524320391.348:5): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="man_filter" pid=4796 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 92.946617] audit: type=1400 audit(1524320391.348:6): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="man_groff" pid=4796 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 92.946886] audit: type=1400 audit(1524320391.348:7): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/snap/core/4407/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine" pid=4793 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 92.946889] audit: type=1400 audit(1524320391.348:8): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/snap/core/4407/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine//mount-namespace-capture-helper" pid=4793 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 92.947722] audit: type=1400 audit(1524320391.348:9): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/sbin/dhclient" pid=4792 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 92.947725] audit: type=1400 audit(1524320391.348:10): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" pid=4792 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 92.947727] audit: type=1400 audit(1524320391.348:11): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-helper" pid=4792 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 97.322634] DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
[ 97.322640] DMAR: [INTR-REMAP] Request device [f0:1f.0] fault index 400 [fault reason 34] Present field in the IRTE entry is clear
[ 97.439389] DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
[ 97.439394] DMAR: [INTR-REMAP] Request device [f0:1f.0] fault index 400 [fault reason 34] Present field in the IRTE entry is clear
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com.
In case it can be of help, here’s also the output of lshw for the NVIDIA card
display UNCLAIMED
description: 3D controller
product: GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a2
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: iomemory:40-3f iomemory:40-3f memory:f0000000-f0ffffff memory:4e0000000-4efffffff memory:4f0000000-4f1ffffff memory:f1000000-f107ffff
Thank you for you help,
Alessandro