Ubuntu
fabric-manager-550 package

Nvidia fabric-manager-550 version incompatible with Nvidia Driver

Bug #2083338 reported by Jean-Noël Bazin on 2024-10-01

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	fabric-manager-550 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Description: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Release: 22.04

cuda-drivers-fabricmanager-550 and nvidia-driver-550 are package with incompatible versions :

apt-cache policy nvidia-driver-550
nvidia-driver-550:
  Installé : 550.107.02-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
  Candidat : 550.107.02-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
Table de version :
*** 550.107.02-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 500
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/restricted amd64 Packages
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/restricted amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt-cache policy cuda-drivers-fabricmanager-550
cuda-drivers-fabricmanager-550:
  Installé : 550.90.07-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
  Candidat : 550.90.07-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
Table de version :
*** 550.90.07-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 500
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/restricted amd64 Packages
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/restricted amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

systemctl status nvidia-fabricmanager.service
...
nv-fabricmanager[2907]: fabric manager NVIDIA GPU driver interface version 550.90.07 don't match with driver version 550.107.02. Please update with matching NVIDIA driver package.
...

The packaged version make the use of NVidia HGX platform unusable as is.

It was the case as well at some point with 535 versions (see bug 2065014 : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fabric-manager-535/+bug/2065014)