Ubuntu GPU Image Problem After Kernel Upgrade
An Ubuntu GPU instance fails to load its Nvidia GPU drivers upon being rebooted after a kernel upgrade, when the following command was run prior to the reboot:
# apt-get install linux-image-5.4.0-1052-oracle
During the server's reboot the nvidia-persistenced service failed to load and checking the status of this service returned the following error messages:
# systemctl status nvidia-persistenced
● nvidia-persistenced.service - NVIDIA Persistence Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-persistenced.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/nvidia-persistenced.service.d
└─override.conf
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2021-12-02 15:32:17 KST; 3h 44min ago
The server's logs also show the following errors: