An NVIDIA kernel module 'nvidia-uvm' appears to already be loaded in your kernel

[lukeyeager]

I'm upgrading my driver and hitting this error during install.

I've hit it before and found that nvidia-docker was causing the problem. Can you remind me which command I need to run to be able to move ahead with my driver installation?

[lukeyeager]

Solved it with some combination of these commands:

sudo service lightdm stop
sudo stop nvidia-digits-server
sudo service docker stop
sudo rmmod nvidia-uvm

[3XX0]

service nvidia-docker stop should do it (if UVM is only used by nvidia-docker)

[JNingWei]

I also encountered the same problem. The reason for the error was that I accidentally selected "Install nvidia driver" during the installation of cuda.

So, during the installation of CUDA, when you encounter the following options:

Install NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 384.81?
(y)es/(n)o/(q)uit:

Please select q , the problem will be solved.

[GigiCoding]

I also encountered the same problem. The reason for the error was that I accidentally selected "Install nvidia driver" during the installation of cuda.

So, during the installation of CUDA, when you encounter the following options:

Install NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 384.81?
(y)es/(n)o/(q)uit:

Please select q , the problem will be solved.

Thank you so much! This solved my problem.

[zhangxiaoya]

@JNingWei you should select n

[bruce2233]

So how to upgrade driver version in Nvidia-driver?