OCI: Docker Container Fail to Start With Error: stderr: nvidia-container-cli: initialization error: nvml error: driver not loaded\\\\n\\\"\"": unknown. (Doc ID 2732074.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Applies to:

Symptoms

Error while trying to start docker container.

$ docker run --gpus all <CONTAINER>

result in error:

docker: Error response from daemon: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:349: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:449: container 
init caused \"process_linux.go:432: running prestart hook 0 caused \\\"error running hook: exit status 1, stdout: , stderr: nvidia-container-cli: initialization 
error: nvml error: driver not loaded\\\\n\\\"\"": unknown.

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