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How I fix this issue NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running
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I had many driver installed I my virtual machine , so It was actually the reason why I was having the error.

To fix it I had first to remove all driver I have installed before using :

  • sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*

  • sudo apt-get update

-sudo apt-get autoremove After that I when a head and installed the latest version of it nvidia driver:

I did :

  • apt search nvidia-driver to get the latest version of the driver After getting the latest version I installed it with :

    • sudo apt install nvidia-driver-390 And after installing it I rebooted my machine and checked with :

nvidia-smi

And tata:

The results :

https://imgur.com/a/xfpvrtb

Ressources :

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu-linux-install-nvidia-driver-latest-proprietary-driver/

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