nvidia-modprobe out-of-date breaks nvidia-docker

Bug #1732919 reported by Thomas Riccardi
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nvidia-modprobe (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

nvidia-docker (v1) (https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker/tree/1.0) is broken with ubuntu nvidia packages:
$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii nvidia-375 384.90-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64 Transitional package for nvidia-384
ii nvidia-384 384.90-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA binary driver - version 384.90
ii nvidia-docker 1.0.1-1 amd64 NVIDIA Docker container tools
ii nvidia-modprobe 361.28-1 amd64 utility to load NVIDIA kernel modules and create device nodes
rc nvidia-opencl-icd-375 384.90-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64 Transitional package for nvidia-opencl-icd-384
ii nvidia-opencl-icd-384 384.90-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
ii nvidia-prime 0.8.2 amd64 Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii nvidia-settings 361.42-0ubuntu1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

This is resolved by updating nvidia-modprobe (375.26 from ubuntu 17.04 is OK): it now correctly creates '/dev/nvidia-uvm-tools'.
See https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker/issues/526

The updated nvidia-modprobe package is out of sync with nvidia-384, and I'm not sure what damages it can do, but at least nvidia-docker is broken by it.

Revision history for this message
Graham Inggs (ginggs) wrote :

nvidia-modprobe 384.111-2 is include in Ubuntu 18.04

Changed in nvidia-modprobe (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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