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.
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'.
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.
$ systemctl status nvidia- persistenced. service persistenced. service - NVIDIA Persistence Daemon system/ nvidia- persistenced. service; static; vendor preset: enabled) /bin/rm -rf /var/run/ nvidia- persistenced (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) /usr/bin/ nvidia- persistenced --user nvidia-persistenced --no-persistenc e-mode --verbose (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
● nvidia-
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2017-05-24 03:51:28 EDT; 7min ago
Process: 1281 ExecStopPost=
Process: 1279 ExecStart=
CPU: 1ms
May 24 03:51:28 change-mode systemd[1]: Starting NVIDIA Persistence Daemon... persistenced. service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/bin/ nvidia- persistenced: No such file or directory persistenced. service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203 persistenced. service: Unit entered failed state. persistenced. service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
May 24 03:51:28 change-mode systemd[1279]: nvidia-
May 24 03:51:28 change-mode systemd[1]: nvidia-
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-
May 24 03:51:28 change-mode systemd[1]: nvidia-