Arvados

The systemd nvidia-persistenced.service fails to start when a compute image with Nvidia GPU support is started on a non-GPU node:

# systemctl
...
● nvidia-persistenced.service                                              loaded failed failed    NVIDIA Persistence Daemon         
...

# systemctl status nvidia-persistenced.service
● nvidia-persistenced.service - NVIDIA Persistence Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-persistenced.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2022-02-03 18:38:16 UTC; 16min ago

Feb 03 18:38:15 ip-10-253-254-98 systemd[1]: Starting NVIDIA Persistence Daemon...
Feb 03 18:38:15 ip-10-253-254-98 nvidia-persistenced[559]: Started (559)
Feb 03 18:38:16 ip-10-253-254-98 nvidia-persistenced[559]: Failed to query NVIDIA devices. Please ensure that the NVIDIA device files (/dev/nvidia*) exist, and that user 108 has read and write permissions for those files.
Feb 03 18:38:16 ip-10-253-254-98 nvidia-persistenced[552]: nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details.
Feb 03 18:38:16 ip-10-253-254-98 nvidia-persistenced[559]: Shutdown (559)
Feb 03 18:38:16 ip-10-253-254-98 systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb 03 18:38:16 ip-10-253-254-98 systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 03 18:38:16 ip-10-253-254-98 systemd[1]: Failed to start NVIDIA Persistence Daemon.

This is a problem because it means that

systemctl is-system-running

returns degraded. That command is our default for BootProbeCommand. In other words, the compute nodes never reach "ready" state from Arvados' perspective.