cudaGetDevice() failed. Status: CUDA driver version is insufficient for CUDA runtime version

Question

I get the following error when l run tensorflow in GPU.

2018-09-15 18:56:51.011724: E tensorflow/core/common_runtime/direct_session.cc:158] Internal: cudaGetDevi         


        

Answer 1

Same problem. Solved updating nvidia driver, because a I was using tensorflow 2.1 and it requires updated driver. Soo, I was using 390 and updated to 435, through Ubuntu's software manager.

Answer 2

Updating nvidia driver solved this issue.

You can check your cuda toolkit compatiblity here. Then update your nvidia driver by downloading it from here.

Answer 3

Just update your nvidia drivers and it will solve the issue

Answer 4

The reason for this error is the mismatch of your installed Cuda Toolkit version and the version of the python package cudatoolkit, which is usually installed as dependency of tensorflow-gpu.

In order to fix this you have to first match your tensorflow version with your installed Cuda Toolkit version like shown here

Then you have to check the version of your cudatoolkit package. This have to match major and minor version, so e.g. if you have Cuda Toolkit 9.0 installed and cudatoolkit9_1 is installed you need to downgrade to cudatoolkit9 via your python.

Answer 5

In the case I just solved, it was updating the GPU driver to the latest and installing the cuda toolkit. Your error is telling you your CUDA driver version is too old. I believe the nvcc version we were seeing was 7.5, and you have 7.3.

I think all you will have to do is: sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit then reboot.

Below are the steps I took for the problem where the libcuda.so.1 file could not be found.

First, the ppa was added and a newer GPU driver installed:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-390

After adding the ppa, it showed options for driver versions, and 390 was the latest 'stable' version that was shown.

Then install the cuda toolkit:

sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit

Then reboot:

sudo reboot

It updated the drivers to a newer version than the 390 originally installed in the first step (it was 410; this was a p2.xlarge instance on AWS).

Answer 6

For Ubuntu 18.04 and Tensorflow 1.13.1

First make sure system is up to data:

sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo reboot now

Install later drivers:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

Open Software & Updates and select the Additional Drivers tab:

Select the nvidia-driver-396 and click Apply Changes

Now reboot:

sudo reboot now

To verify which that NVIDIA driver 396 active:

nvidia-smi