nvidia-smi command not found docker error can be resolved with these troubleshooting tips by our experts. 

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Resolved: nvidia-smi command not found docker

The NVIDIA System Management Interface or nvidia-smi can be described as a command-line utility. It helps with managing and monitoring NVIDIA GPU devices.

We can use nvidia-smi, we have to copy it to /usr/bin manually and set the permissions with these commands:

cp /usr/lib/wsl/lib/nvidia-smi /usr/bin/nvidia-smi chmod ogu+x /usr/bin/nvidia-smi

In order to verify if the plugin is running on the host, we can use the following command:

sudo systemctl status nvidia-docker

The command below helps us check if the volume is incomplete or not:

nvidia-docker run --rm nvidia/cuda sh -c 'ls -R /usr/local/nvidia'

We can remove an incomplete volume with this command:

docker volume rm -f nvidia_driver_375.26

After that, we have to start another container:

sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-docker sudo rm -rf /var/lib/nvidia-docker wget -P /tmp https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker/releases/download/v1.0.0-rc.2/nvidia-docker_1.0.0.rc.2-1_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i /tmp/nvidia-docker*.deb && rm /tmp/nvidia-docker*.deb

Some of our customers have been running into nvidia-smi command not found error. For instance:

$ docker exec -it $CONTAINER_NAME bash
$ nvidia-smi
nvidia-smi: command not found

In this scenario, the error occurs due to using the docker run command without attaching the devices. We have to set the driver to the container as seen here:

docker run --rm -it --device=/dev/nvidiactl --device=/dev/nvidia-uvm --device=/dev/nvidia0 -v nvidia_driver_367.57:/usr/local/nvidia:ro --name $CONTAINER_NAME -p 3000:3000 $CONTAINER_IMG:$CONTAINER_VERSION $CMD

Our Support Techs would like to point out that we cannot attach the volume with the –volume-driver nvidia-docker option due to nvidia driver limitation. Furthermore, we have to set up the volume on the host first.

Alternatively, we can also use –gpus to resolve the issue:

docker run -it --name $CONTAINER_NAME --gpus all -p 3000:3000 $IMAGE_NAMEM

If you are still running into nvidia-smi command not found docker error, our Support Techs will resolve the issue for you in no time.

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Conclusion

In a nutshell, our skilled Docker Support Engineers at Bobcares took us through nvidia-smi command not found error troubleshooting tips.