Nvidia¶

Failing to Install Nvidia Driver¶

Some systems may fail to install the correct Nvidia driver even after several reboots. While running puppet you usually then see following error:

Notice: /Stage[main]/Profile::Nvidia::Cuda/Exec[Nvidia_check_failed]/returns: failed to install/loaded Nvidia software configured by Puppet as there is still the Nouveau driver loaded, please reboot

To get more details on the problem you can run the following command:

bash -x /opt/pli/libexec/ensure-nvidia-software

If you see the following error message:

+ dnf --quiet --assumeyes module install nvidia-driver:580-dkms/default
Error: Transaction test error:
  file /usr/share/egl/egl_external_platform.d/15_nvidia_gbm.json conflicts between attempted installs of egl-wayland-1.1.13.1-3.el9_8.x86_64 and egl-gbm-2:1.1.3-1.el9.x86_64

the issue can be resolved by following the steps below:

Install the egl-wayland package:
```
dnf install egl-wayland
```
Re-Execute the failing command (omit the --quiet and --assumeyes flags to see more details) - this command will fail again with a different error message - you can ignore this error message and continue to the next step:
```
dnf module install nvidia-driver:580-dkms/default
```
3. Find rpm
```
find /var/cache/dnf -name "*egl-gbm*"
```
4. Install package from the rpm file found in the previous step:
```
rpm -i --force $(whatever you found in the previous step)
```
Again re-execute the failing command (this should succeed now):
```
dnf module install nvidia-driver:580-dkms/default
```
Reboot the system and re-run puppet to ensure that the Nvidia driver is installed correctly.