nvidia-bug-report on GPU Operator–Managed Nodes

Overview

On GPU Operator–managed nodes the NVIDIA driver runs inside a container and is bind-mounted onto the host at /run/nvidia/driver. Consequences:

• nvidia-smi, nvidia-bug-report.sh, etc. are not on the host $PATH
• dpkg -l | grep nvidia shows nothing on the host — that's normal, not a broken install
• Do not apt install nvidia-utils-* — it installs a second, conflicting driver stack on top of the Operator-managed one
• The kernel modules (nvidia, nvidia_uvm, nvidia_modeset) ARE loaded into the host kernel and show up in lsmod

Locate the tools

find / -iname "nvidia-bug-report*" 2>/dev/null
# typically: /run/nvidia/driver/usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh

Generate the report