[GH-ISSUE #12352] cuda driver library init failure: 205 #54718

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opened 2026-04-29 07:05:13 -05:00 by GiteaMirror · 1 comment
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Originally created by @srshkmr on GitHub (Sep 20, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/12352

What is the issue?

Ollama not using GPU but devices are visible for the container

Relevant log output

docker logs ollama_gpu
time=2025-09-20T07:16:49.203Z level=INFO source=routes.go:1466 msg="server config" env="map[CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES: GPU_DEVICE_ORDINAL: HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES: HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION: HTTPS_PROXY: HTTP_PROXY: NO_PROXY: OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH:4096 OLLAMA_DEBUG:INFO OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION:false OLLAMA_GPU_OVERHEAD:0 OLLAMA_HOST:http://0.0.0.0:11434 OLLAMA_INTEL_GPU:false OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE:5m0s OLLAMA_KV_CACHE_TYPE: OLLAMA_LLM_LIBRARY: OLLAMA_LOAD_TIMEOUT:5m0s OLLAMA_MAX_LOADED_MODELS:0 OLLAMA_MAX_QUEUE:512 OLLAMA_MODELS:/root/.ollama/models OLLAMA_MULTIUSER_CACHE:false OLLAMA_NEW_ENGINE:false OLLAMA_NOHISTORY:false OLLAMA_NOPRUNE:false OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL:1 OLLAMA_ORIGINS:[http://localhost https://localhost http://localhost:* https://localhost:* http://127.0.0.1 https://127.0.0.1 http://127.0.0.1:* https://127.0.0.1:* http://0.0.0.0 https://0.0.0.0 http://0.0.0.0:* https://0.0.0.0:* app://* file://* tauri://* vscode-webview://* vscode-file://*] OLLAMA_REMOTES:[ollama.com] OLLAMA_SCHED_SPREAD:false ROCR_VISIBLE_DEVICES: http_proxy: https_proxy: no_proxy:]"
time=2025-09-20T07:16:49.203Z level=INFO source=images.go:518 msg="total blobs: 0"
time=2025-09-20T07:16:49.204Z level=INFO source=images.go:525 msg="total unused blobs removed: 0"
time=2025-09-20T07:16:49.204Z level=INFO source=routes.go:1519 msg="Listening on [::]:11434 (version 0.12.0)"
time=2025-09-20T07:16:49.204Z level=INFO source=gpu.go:217 msg="looking for compatible GPUs"
time=2025-09-20T07:16:49.255Z level=INFO source=gpu.go:631 msg="Unable to load cudart library /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcuda.so.550.163.01: cuda driver library init failure: 205"
time=2025-09-20T07:16:49.259Z level=INFO source=gpu.go:396 msg="no compatible GPUs were discovered"
time=2025-09-20T07:16:49.259Z level=INFO source=types.go:131 msg="inference compute" id=0 library=cpu variant="" compute="" driver=0.0 name="" total="503.8 GiB" available="493.7 GiB"


docker exec -it ollama_gpu bash -lc 'ls -l /dev/nvidia* && nvidia-smi -L'
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 509,   0 Aug  6 07:23 /dev/nvidia-uvm
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 509,   1 Aug  6 07:23 /dev/nvidia-uvm-tools
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195,   0 Aug  6 07:23 /dev/nvidia0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195,   1 Aug  6 07:23 /dev/nvidia1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195,   2 Aug  6 07:23 /dev/nvidia2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195,   3 Aug  6 07:23 /dev/nvidia3
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195,   4 Aug  6 07:23 /dev/nvidia4
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195,   5 Aug  6 07:23 /dev/nvidia5
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195,   6 Aug  6 07:23 /dev/nvidia6
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195,   7 Aug  6 07:23 /dev/nvidia7
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 255 Aug  6 07:23 /dev/nvidiactl
GPU 0: Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB (UUID: GPU-23e1acaf-bad8-ccca-b9f3-bcee5fc188a6)
GPU 1: Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB (UUID: GPU-b68f1f98-65b7-5328-f3ee-63fa5448f0b0)
GPU 2: Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB (UUID: GPU-41e7ab21-5bc3-b454-300f-440c1ba8c243)
GPU 3: Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB (UUID: GPU-8794b9db-bb90-3c4c-b58c-a570796dc18f)
GPU 4: Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB (UUID: GPU-6ba4155a-d237-0b4d-2f3c-809c1ad67836)
GPU 5: Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB (UUID: GPU-458332e0-3d9a-d412-b15d-55d861ce24cd)
GPU 6: Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB (UUID: GPU-07603db3-907c-4310-ed95-cd189718135e)
GPU 7: Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB (UUID: GPU-fcb0be32-9b66-3191-0583-ac0477006346)

OS

Linux, Docker

GPU

Nvidia

CPU

Intel

Ollama version

0.12.0

Originally created by @srshkmr on GitHub (Sep 20, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/12352 ### What is the issue? Ollama not using GPU but devices are visible for the container ### Relevant log output ```shell docker logs ollama_gpu time=2025-09-20T07:16:49.203Z level=INFO source=routes.go:1466 msg="server config" env="map[CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES: GPU_DEVICE_ORDINAL: HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES: HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION: HTTPS_PROXY: HTTP_PROXY: NO_PROXY: OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH:4096 OLLAMA_DEBUG:INFO OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION:false OLLAMA_GPU_OVERHEAD:0 OLLAMA_HOST:http://0.0.0.0:11434 OLLAMA_INTEL_GPU:false OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE:5m0s OLLAMA_KV_CACHE_TYPE: OLLAMA_LLM_LIBRARY: OLLAMA_LOAD_TIMEOUT:5m0s OLLAMA_MAX_LOADED_MODELS:0 OLLAMA_MAX_QUEUE:512 OLLAMA_MODELS:/root/.ollama/models OLLAMA_MULTIUSER_CACHE:false OLLAMA_NEW_ENGINE:false OLLAMA_NOHISTORY:false OLLAMA_NOPRUNE:false OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL:1 OLLAMA_ORIGINS:[http://localhost https://localhost http://localhost:* https://localhost:* http://127.0.0.1 https://127.0.0.1 http://127.0.0.1:* https://127.0.0.1:* http://0.0.0.0 https://0.0.0.0 http://0.0.0.0:* https://0.0.0.0:* app://* file://* tauri://* vscode-webview://* vscode-file://*] OLLAMA_REMOTES:[ollama.com] OLLAMA_SCHED_SPREAD:false ROCR_VISIBLE_DEVICES: http_proxy: https_proxy: no_proxy:]" time=2025-09-20T07:16:49.203Z level=INFO source=images.go:518 msg="total blobs: 0" time=2025-09-20T07:16:49.204Z level=INFO source=images.go:525 msg="total unused blobs removed: 0" time=2025-09-20T07:16:49.204Z level=INFO source=routes.go:1519 msg="Listening on [::]:11434 (version 0.12.0)" time=2025-09-20T07:16:49.204Z level=INFO source=gpu.go:217 msg="looking for compatible GPUs" time=2025-09-20T07:16:49.255Z level=INFO source=gpu.go:631 msg="Unable to load cudart library /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcuda.so.550.163.01: cuda driver library init failure: 205" time=2025-09-20T07:16:49.259Z level=INFO source=gpu.go:396 msg="no compatible GPUs were discovered" time=2025-09-20T07:16:49.259Z level=INFO source=types.go:131 msg="inference compute" id=0 library=cpu variant="" compute="" driver=0.0 name="" total="503.8 GiB" available="493.7 GiB" docker exec -it ollama_gpu bash -lc 'ls -l /dev/nvidia* && nvidia-smi -L' crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 509, 0 Aug 6 07:23 /dev/nvidia-uvm crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 509, 1 Aug 6 07:23 /dev/nvidia-uvm-tools crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 0 Aug 6 07:23 /dev/nvidia0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 1 Aug 6 07:23 /dev/nvidia1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 2 Aug 6 07:23 /dev/nvidia2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 3 Aug 6 07:23 /dev/nvidia3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 4 Aug 6 07:23 /dev/nvidia4 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 5 Aug 6 07:23 /dev/nvidia5 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 6 Aug 6 07:23 /dev/nvidia6 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 7 Aug 6 07:23 /dev/nvidia7 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 255 Aug 6 07:23 /dev/nvidiactl GPU 0: Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB (UUID: GPU-23e1acaf-bad8-ccca-b9f3-bcee5fc188a6) GPU 1: Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB (UUID: GPU-b68f1f98-65b7-5328-f3ee-63fa5448f0b0) GPU 2: Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB (UUID: GPU-41e7ab21-5bc3-b454-300f-440c1ba8c243) GPU 3: Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB (UUID: GPU-8794b9db-bb90-3c4c-b58c-a570796dc18f) GPU 4: Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB (UUID: GPU-6ba4155a-d237-0b4d-2f3c-809c1ad67836) GPU 5: Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB (UUID: GPU-458332e0-3d9a-d412-b15d-55d861ce24cd) GPU 6: Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB (UUID: GPU-07603db3-907c-4310-ed95-cd189718135e) GPU 7: Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB (UUID: GPU-fcb0be32-9b66-3191-0583-ac0477006346) ``` ### OS Linux, Docker ### GPU Nvidia ### CPU Intel ### Ollama version 0.12.0
GiteaMirror added the bug label 2026-04-29 07:05:13 -05:00
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@srshkmr commented on GitHub (Sep 24, 2025):

didnt have the correct arguments passed to the docker compose file. works now

<!-- gh-comment-id:3326526313 --> @srshkmr commented on GitHub (Sep 24, 2025): didnt have the correct arguments passed to the docker compose file. works now
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Reference: github-starred/ollama#54718