Comment 7 for bug 1759836

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GaƩtan QUENTIN (gaetan-quentin) wrote : Re: systemd-udevd consumes 100% of CPU

on official bionic , upgraded from artful:

systemd-udevd eats lot cpu , trying to repeatly modprobe nvidia indefinitly , while it is not install in this computer :

it is on a usb bootable ssd disk. i boot it on several computers, some have nvidia, some have not.

it was working fine with artfull and zesty.

i am using proprietary nvidia version 396

May 2 13:35:46 localhost kernel: [ 866.436341] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 240
May 2 13:35:46 localhost kernel: [ 866.436566] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
May 2 13:35:46 localhost kernel: [ 866.436718] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 240
May 2 13:35:46 localhost kernel: [ 866.506576] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 240
May 2 13:35:46 localhost kernel: [ 866.506832] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
May 2 13:35:46 localhost kernel: [ 866.506937] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 240
May 2 13:35:46 localhost systemd-udevd[19441]: Process '/usr/bin/nvidia-smi' failed with exit code 9.
May 2 13:35:46 localhost systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
May 2 13:35:46 localhost systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.