nvidia module without nvidia card

[Christoph Pleger]

Hello,

> > can anybody tell me why the nvidia kernel module is loaded / tried to be
> > loaded even when the computer has no nvidia card and the nvidia module
> > is not listed in /etc/modules or /etc/modules-load.d/?
> 
> Could you post syslog around that action?  Include a bit before it for
> context.

An excerpt of syslog is attached.

Regards
  Christoph
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Sep  5 09:48:23 aspects systemd[1]: Reached target Login Prompts.
Sep  5 09:48:27 aspects kernel: [  106.441247] ipmi message handler version 39.2
Sep  5 09:48:27 aspects kernel: [  106.452405] ipmi device interface
Sep  5 09:48:27 aspects kernel: [  106.840368] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
Sep  5 09:48:27 aspects kernel: [  106.840377] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Sep  5 09:48:27 aspects kernel: [  106.840378] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Sep  5 09:48:27 aspects kernel: [  106.851893] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
Sep  5 09:48:27 aspects kernel: [  106.862115] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 240
Sep  5 09:48:27 aspects kernel: [  106.862390] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
Sep  5 09:48:27 aspects kernel: [  106.862476] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 240
Sep  5 09:48:27 aspects systemd-udevd[1544]: Process '/bin/systemctl start --no-block nvidia-persistenced.service' failed with exit code 5.
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects kernel: [  106.905925] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 240
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects kernel: [  106.906792] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects kernel: [  106.906871] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 240
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects systemd-udevd[1544]: Process '/sbin/modprobe nvidia-modeset' failed with exit code 1.
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects kernel: [  106.969609] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 240
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects kernel: [  106.969872] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects kernel: [  106.969951] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 240
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects systemd-udevd[1544]: Process '/sbin/modprobe nvidia-drm' failed with exit code 1.
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects kernel: [  107.037111] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 240
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects kernel: [  107.037370] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects kernel: [  107.037452] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 240
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects systemd-udevd[1544]: Process '/sbin/modprobe nvidia-uvm' failed with exit code 1.
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects kernel: [  107.400180] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 240
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects kernel: [  107.400448] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects kernel: [  107.400528] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 240
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects kernel: [  107.465588] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 240
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects kernel: [  107.465848] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects kernel: [  107.465928] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 240
Sep  5 09:48:28 aspects systemd-udevd[1544]: Process '/usr/bin/nvidia-smi' failed with exit code 9.