How to prevent NVIDIA from automatically upgrading the driver on Ubuntu? - tensorflow

I was training models last night on my Ubuntu workstation, and then woke up this morning and saw this message:
Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch
Apparently the NVIDIA system driver automatically updated itself, and now I need to reboot the machine to use my GPUs... How do I prevent automatic updates from NVIDIA?

I think I have had the same issue. It is because of so-called unattended upgrades on Ubuntu.
Solution 1: check the changed packages and revert the updates
Check the apt history logs
less /var/log/apt/history.log
Then you can see what packages have changed. Use apt or aptitude to revert the changes.
Solution 2: disable unattended upgrades
Use this guide to disable unattended upgrades. Please consider if this solution works for you as you have to install security updates manually after this change.
Solution 3: hold specific packages
Use this guide on how to hold certain packages. Read the apt history as mentioned above to determine which packages you have to put on hold. Probably CUDA related packages such as nvidia-cuda-toolkit. Hard to say since some information is missing from your post. You can see all nvidia related packages like this
dpkg -l *nvidia*
I hope at least one of my solutions works for you :)
P.S. you have to change the title. NVIDIA isn't upgrading anything on your system by itself. Ubuntu is the one causing your trouble ;)

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Problem running a PyQt5 project in WSLg - no application window shows up

I am running WSL2 under Windows 10.
If I type "gedit &" into the WSL console, the Gedit application window pops up. Thus I assume that WSLg properly works.
Next, I am trying to run the following PyQt5 project:
https://github.com/rafaelpadilla/review_object_detection_metrics
However, no application window pops up this time, although no error message appears either.
First of all, I do wonder whether this could work at all with WSL!?
Appendix for additional context:
I am not using conda because of licensing issues, but a combination of pyenv + poetry instead. First I had problems with a missing library (libxcb.so), which I could solve by running "sudo apt python-pyqt5". Now everything seems to work, except from no application window being shown.
UPDATE:
I tried with "/src/pyqt-official/qtdemo/qtdemo.py" from the official PyQt Examples github repository and I observed exactly the same issue.
There is no error message. Last prompt informs me that the "xcb plugin was loaded“, then nothing happens. In particular, no window is showing up.
Some related observations:
(1) I haven't yet updated my grafics card driver to support vGPUs. However, Gedit works and opens in a separate window.
(2) Unless I do "sudo apt install python3-pyqt", I receive an error message saying that it cannot find "libxcb.so". However, I am running the code in a virtual pyenv/poetry environment, which is separate from the system python installation. I don't understand why "sudo apt install python3-pyqt" makes a difference here. Shouldn't installing "PyQt5" with poetry obtain a wheel that comes with all libraries already compiled? I don't understand how all of this is playing together.
Open Questions:
Do you think the driver issue could be an explanation? I actually cannot imagine that. I thought it is only about better performance for OpenGL applications.
Can you explain observation (2)?
What else can I do?
First of all, I do wonder whether this could work at all with WSL!?
I can't tell you if that particular application will run under WSL, but my expectation is that it will. As far as I can tell in its dependencies there doesn't seem to be any reliance on GPU compute. That, to me, would be the trickiest part to configure under WSL (but is still typically possible). However, there may be other dependencies (not covered below) that you need to get running before the application can work.
What I can confirm is that PyQt works under WSL just fine. However, keep in mind that a default Ubuntu installation under WSL is based on a non-GUI Ubuntu Server distribution, rather than standard Ubuntu (with a desktop and GUI).
This means that Ubuntu Server is often missing system level libraries needed for GUI support, which appears to be the case here.
I don't understand why "sudo apt install python3-pyqt" makes a difference here. Shouldn't installing "PyQt5" with poetry obtain a wheel that comes with all libraries already compiled?
Poetry and/or Pip manage the Python library dependencies, but those Python libraries still require the native system library dependencies. That's where sudo apt install python3-pyqt5 comes in. Under a desktop Ubuntu system, most of these libraries would already be in place. However, with Ubuntu Server/WSL, they aren't.
For reference, here's my configuration. On a freshly initialized Ubuntu 22.04 WSL2 distribution:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install python3-venv python3-pyqt5
mkdir -p src/pyqt_test
cd src/pyqt_test
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install pyqt5
I was then able to create and run the following, taken from Learn Python PyQt:
import sys
from PyQt5 import QtWidgets
app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
windows = QtWidgets.QWidget()
windows.resize(500,500)
windows.move(100,100)
windows.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
The window displayed correctly.

Fixing gnuradio deleted directory

I have been following this guide to install gnuradio 3.8 onto my Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, but I missed the instruction where it said "Ensure the "gitbranch" is maint-3.8", and mine said maint-3.10. After trying to install gr-iqbal, it gave me an error. For whatever reason, I thought that simply deleting the directory it was built in would let me reinstall it. It didn't.
I have tried using pybombs install gnuradio which gives me CMake Error: The source directory "/home/aboigoe/sdr/src/gnuradio" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
I have tried using pybombs rebuild gnuradio, but that obtains Package gnuradio is not installed into current prefix. Aborting.
To fix that, I tried using pybombs fetch gnuradio, which runs fine, but doesn't fix the previous error.
Finally, I tried pybombs remove gnuradio, but it says Package gnuradio is not installed. Aborting.
So you're working with pybombs! That makes this particular task easier: just delete the whole prefix, and start anew. The main thing you needed to build in that prefix was GNU Radio, and you built 3.10, and wanted 3.8, so that's a complete rebuild, anyways.
I assume you're following that guide (which comes, kind of, out of nowhere – GNU Radio has installation guides on their wiki, https://wiki.gnuradio.org) because you want exactly GNU Radio 3.8, with gr-osmosdr and gr-iqbal.
If you just want a working GNU Radio that can talk to your SDR hardware, um, don't follow random guides from the internet :) Instead, your whole problem boils down to a simple
sudo apt install gnuradio
and that's it – GNU Radio 3.10, as Ubuntu 22.04 ships it, contains gr-soapy, and Ubuntu's apt will install many available hardware drivers (for RTL-SDR, hackrf, mirisdr, bladerf, audio-interfaced hardware, red pitaya,…) without any need to do anything yourself. It just works.
The thing that will be different is that the blocks to inteface with your hardware will not reside under the "osmosd" category in your GRC, but in "Soapy", but I guess you'll deal with that rather than going through the rather convoluted way of installing an old (and not updated anymore) version of GNU Radio, to include an old (and not updated anymore) version of gr-osmosdr :)

Upgrading "icu" pacman package

Today I tried to upgrade the "icu" pacman package, because I need it for NodeJS to work.
After I installed the newest version my system completely broke, I can't even start it up anymore.
Does anybody know how to fix the problem with Node or how to correctly upgrade the "icu" package?
You shouldn't upgrade individual packages. Instead, you should upgrade the entire system. The reason for this is that the dependencies that exist between packages will break sooner or later if you perform partial upgrades.
If you can't boot your system any more, try booting on the installation media, mount the installed disk, arch-chroot into it and run pacman -Syu.
The proper way to upgrade Arch linux is described here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Upgrading_the_system

How to download Keras_contrib (and other packages that is not avaliable in conda) to Pycharm?

I am quite familiar with Pycharm except 1 thing that I can't seem to figure out how to download Keras_contrib which is not availble in conda's channel and conda-forge channel which is also often used.
I have read the following article which suggest to add additional channel to conda.
"How to Install a Package in PyCharm when project interpreter is set to conda, and the package is not provided/listed by conda? 1"
but as I mentioned Keras_contrib is not provided, and I am not sure quite sure how to download it.
I managed to install Keras_contrib sucessfully to my environment which is also used by Pycharm interpreter, but for some reason, Pycharm does not recognize it.
I follow instruction given in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-contrib
which is running setup.py install
Here are the questions
By doing this Does it get install in the site_packages automatically? because I do not see it.
if I have to do it manually, how come my environment can recognize it, but Pycharm cannot.
Is there a default location in which environment and Pycharm usually look at?
because it would make sense in this case that one may recognize it while other may not.
How can I download Keras_contrib which is not avaliable in well known channel?
Is there other way to check that Pycharm Interpreter is compatible with my anaconda environment other than looking folder it is linked to?
In my case they link to the same environment, but Pycharm just cannot recognize
I just figured it out.
so Pycharm looks at site-packages of your environment.
I solved by problem that Pycharm cannot recognize the packages while anacoda env can by copy and past the Keras_contrib to the site-packages. (I still find this to be strange if any one answer to this. Feel free to comment)

How to install recent mono and monodevelop?

I tried to install mono and monodevelop on centOS 6.3.
After many hours I was able to install mono but failed with monodevelop.
I'm really astonished how difficult and time consuming it is, to get a recent mono/monodevelop version on linux installed.
Is there nobody willing to write and maintain an install/compile tutorial to get the most recent mono/monodevelop/monodata/ASP.NET MVC/... version on the major linux distributions (Centos, Ubuntu, Suse, Debian) installed?
I think many people developing on Windows (with limited linux knowledge) would like to start using mono, if the boarding hurdle would be somehow lower.
It may be the most important to make Mono more used and more visible.
Please, write a tested tutorial (script) for compiling mono/monodevelop.
Thank you!
I have created a project on Open Build Service, which produces builds of the latest MonoDevelop 4.0.10 for Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Fedora.
see https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:tpokorra:mono
For installation instructions with apt-get or yum, see:
http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=home:tpokorra:mono&package=monodevelop-opt
I hope this will increase the usage of MonoDevelop on Linux Desktop environments.
Monodevelop 4.
If you use any *buntu. Check this.
"You can open up the terminal and install it via the following:
1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:keks9n/monodevelop-latest
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install monodevelop-latest"
http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/?p=101
Xamarin should be doing a better job at publishing the linux packages in a one-click manner. I don't care what linux distro (SuSE, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu etc) - just pick any one as the supported one and publish for it. It seemed that it used to be SuSE but even that has old packages as seen within Zypper/YaST.
Update Mono framework
Having said that, to update the Mono framework itself, without letting go of the package managers try this. This will work as long as the project dutifully publishes the RPMs. You don't want to build from source since it's a more fickle process and the setup distracts from your real objective (i.e. develop).
Obviously, please replace the URL below to what will be latest by the time you're reading this.
mkdir mono-rpms
cd mono-rpms
wget --reject "index.html*" -nd -r -e robots=off --no-parent http://download.mono-project.com/archive/3.2.3/linux/x64/
sudo zypper install *rpm
Update MonoDevelop (the IDE)
Timotheus Pokorra's answer indicates he's filling in some of the usability void left by Xamarin (Thanks Timotheus!!). You can install MonoDevelop via
http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=home:tpokorra:mono&package=monodevelop-opt
Note that on SuSE I get the error
Problem: nothing provides liberation-mono-fonts needed by mono-libgdiplus-opt-3.0.12-7.1.x86_64
Solution 1: do not install monodevelop-opt-4.0.12-5.2.x86_64
Solution 2: break mono-libgdiplus-opt-3.0.12-7.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
I (very reluctantly) selected to break the dependency. Note that I already had liberation-fonts (via sudo zypper install liberation-fonts). I don't know if its the same/different as liberation-mono-fonts. Anyway, hope Timotheus fixes it when he has a moment.
I'm not sure if you've already seen this, but this may help:
http://www.mono-project.com/Parallel_Mono_Environments
The most common problem that new developers have when coming to Linux from systems like Windows is not properly setting up their environment variables and so when they do the standard ./configure && make && make install routine, when it involves a number of source packages (like Mono does), any package that depends on the core package won't pick up the correct location for that base package.
Your question really doesn't explain what parts you found confusing or difficult so it's hard to address those issues.
For people unfamiliar with setting up Linux systems, it may be easier if you just go with a system like Ubuntu which has fairly recent pre-built packages (although not the latest - I don't think any Linux system keeps up with Mono releases) rather than wrestling with the learning curve of how to build everything yourself.
It is confirmed that in the near future Xamarin will support Linux and provide binaries (mono and mainline applications) for Debian and Centos derivatives, and their are already packages for Debian and Centos derivatives for technical preview. So cheers and no more pain of compiling and even parallel mono installaions.It can not get more easy than this. Check here