Issue while installing NVIDIA GPU Driver Extension

Question

Following this link, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/extensions/hpccompute-gpu-linux

I tried to install the NVIDIA GPU Driver extension but I am getting this issue provided in the screenshot image.

OS: Linux (ubuntu 20.04)

Size: Standard NV6ads A10 v5 (6 vcpus, 55 GiB memory)

Answer 1

Hi @Nilesh Maharjan

I understand you are facing an issue with loading the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux on a system with Secure Boot enabled. This error message indicates that the kernel module failed to load because it was not signed by a key that is trusted by the system.

To resolve this issue, you can try the following steps:

1. Disable Secure Boot on your system. This will allow the kernel module to load even if it is not signed by a trusted key. You can usually disable Secure Boot from the BIOS or UEFI settings of your system.
2. If you cannot/do not want to disable Secure Boot, you can try signing the kernel module with a key that is trusted by your system. NVIDIA provides instructions on how to sign the kernel module with a trusted key in their documentation. You can find the documentation at the following link: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#runfile-verifications

There is a proven solution on this open forum that worked for many, I'd recommend you to review this https://askubuntu.com/questions/1023036/how-to-install-nvidia-driver-with-secure-boot-enabled/1049479#1049479

If neither of these solutions work for you, please provide me installation logs for you NVIDIA GPU Driver so that I can assist you better. Also, please confirm if you have used a market place image to deploy your Ubuntu Linux distro?