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Update systemd unit conditions to execute nvidia-smi and re-add restart logic #1825

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Update systemd unit conditions to execute nvidia-smi
cdesiniotis May 14, 2026
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Reintroduce restart logic to nvidia-cdi-refresh.service
cdesiniotis May 14, 2026
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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions deployments/systemd/nvidia-cdi-refresh.service
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Expand Up @@ -18,15 +18,23 @@ ConditionPathExists=|/usr/bin/nvidia-smi
ConditionPathExists=|/usr/sbin/nvidia-smi
ConditionPathExists=|/usr/lib/wsl/lib/nvidia-smi
ConditionPathExists=/usr/bin/nvidia-ctk
# Limit the number of successive restarts to 5 in 10 seconds.
StartLimitBurst=5
StartLimitIntervalSec=10s

[Service]
Type=oneshot
# Values from Environment will be replaced if defined in EnvironmentFile
Environment=NVIDIA_CTK_CDI_OUTPUT_FILE_PATH=/var/run/cdi/nvidia.yaml
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/nvidia-container-toolkit/nvidia-cdi-refresh.env
ExecCondition=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/grep -qE "/(nvidia|nvidia-current)[.]ko" /lib/modules/%v/modules.dep || [ -e /dev/dxg ]'
ExecCondition=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/nvidia-smi -L || /usr/sbin/nvidia-smi -L || /usr/lib/wsl/lib/nvidia-smi -L'
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ExecStart=/usr/bin/nvidia-ctk cdi generate
CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_SYS_MODULE CAP_SYS_ADMIN CAP_MKNOD
# We set the service to restart on failure to ensure that a CDI spec is
# eventually generated.
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=1s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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