NVIDIA NVML Driver/library version mismatch

Question

When I run nvidia-smi I get the following message:

Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch

An hour ago I receiv

Answer 1

The top-2 answers can't solve my problem. I found a solution at the Nvidia official forum solved my problem. The below error info may cause by installing two different versions of the driver by different approaches. For example, install Nvidia driver by the apt and the official installer.

Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch

To solve this problem, only need to execute one of the following two commands.

sudo apt-get --purge remove "*nvidia*"

sudo /usr/bin/nvidia-uninstall