Invalid cross-device link in Ubuntu 14.04

[xzhang311]

While running

sudo nvidia-docker run --rm nvidia/cuda nvidia-smi

I encountered an internal error.

Log shows:

/usr/bin/nvidia-docker-plugin | 2017/07/09 22:04:32 Successfully terminated
/usr/bin/nvidia-docker-plugin | 2017/07/09 22:05:07 Loading NVIDIA unified memory
/usr/bin/nvidia-docker-plugin | 2017/07/09 22:05:10 Loading NVIDIA management library
/usr/bin/nvidia-docker-plugin | 2017/07/09 22:05:12 Discovering GPU devices
/usr/bin/nvidia-docker-plugin | 2017/07/09 22:05:15 Provisioning volumes at /var/lib/nvidia-docker/volumes
/usr/bin/nvidia-docker-plugin | 2017/07/09 22:05:15 Serving plugin API at /var/lib/nvidia-docker
/usr/bin/nvidia-docker-plugin | 2017/07/09 22:05:15 Serving remote API at localhost:3476
/usr/bin/nvidia-docker-plugin | 2017/07/09 22:09:17 Received activate request
/usr/bin/nvidia-docker-plugin | 2017/07/09 22:09:17 Plugins activated [VolumeDriver]
/usr/bin/nvidia-docker-plugin | 2017/07/09 22:09:17 Received create request for volume 'nvidia_driver_375.26'
/usr/bin/nvidia-docker-plugin | 2017/07/09 22:09:17 Error: link /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.375.26 /var/lib/nvidia-docker/volumes/nvidia_driver/375.26/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so.375.26: invalid cross-device link

By looking at previous posts, I realized that it is because I installed nvidia driver and docker plugin in different partitions.

From post #133 , the solution on Ubuntu 16.04 is override the init config file by:

# systemctl edit nvidia-docker

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/nvidia-docker-plugin -s $SOCK_DIR -d /usr/local/nvidia-driver

But since systemctl is not supported in Ubuntu 14.04. I am wondering what is the equivalent solution to get it works in Ubuntu 14.04.

Thanks
XZ

[flx42]

Hello,

You need to modify /etc/default/nvidia-docker