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bee/iso/overlay/etc/init.d/bee-nvidia
Mikhail Chusavitin 5db3c3c74c fix: create /dev/nvidia* nodes in bee-nvidia — mdev has no NVIDIA rules
Alpine uses mdev which has no rules for NVIDIA devices. Without /dev/nvidiactl
and /dev/nvidia{0-7}, nvidia-smi returns NVML_ERROR_LIBRARY_NOT_FOUND (exit 12)
even though kernel modules are loaded and libraries are present.

Fix: after insmod, read major numbers from /proc/devices and mknod the required
character devices (/dev/nvidiactl, /dev/nvidia{0-7}, /dev/nvidia-uvm).

Add /dev/nvidia* node checks to smoketest for earlier failure detection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-08 14:42:18 +03:00

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#!/sbin/openrc-run
description="Bee: load NVIDIA kernel modules"
NVIDIA_KO_DIR="/usr/local/lib/nvidia"
depend() {
need localmount
before bee-audit
}
start() {
ebegin "Loading NVIDIA modules"
einfo "kernel: $(uname -r)"
if [ ! -d "$NVIDIA_KO_DIR" ]; then
ewarn "NVIDIA module dir missing: $NVIDIA_KO_DIR"
eend 1
return 1
fi
einfo "module dir: $NVIDIA_KO_DIR"
ls "$NVIDIA_KO_DIR"/*.ko 2>/dev/null | sed 's/^/ /' || true
# Create libnvidia-ml soname symlinks needed by nvidia-smi (glibc binary on Alpine/musl)
for lib in libnvidia-ml libcuda; do
versioned=$(ls /usr/lib/${lib}.so.[0-9]* 2>/dev/null | head -1)
[ -n "$versioned" ] || continue
base=$(basename "$versioned")
ln -sf "$base" "/usr/lib/${lib}.so.1" 2>/dev/null || true
ln -sf "${lib}.so.1" "/usr/lib/${lib}.so" 2>/dev/null || true
done
# Load modules via insmod (bypasses modules.dep — modloop squashfs is read-only)
for mod in nvidia nvidia-modeset nvidia-uvm; do
ko="$NVIDIA_KO_DIR/${mod}.ko"
[ -f "$ko" ] || ko="$NVIDIA_KO_DIR/${mod//-/_}.ko"
if [ -f "$ko" ]; then
if insmod "$ko" 2>/dev/null; then
einfo "loaded: $mod"
else
ewarn "failed to load: $mod"
dmesg | tail -n 5 | sed 's/^/ dmesg: /' || true
fi
else
ewarn "not found: $ko"
fi
done
# Create /dev/nvidia* device nodes — mdev on Alpine does not have NVIDIA rules,
# so the kernel hotplug events are not handled and nodes are never created.
# Without /dev/nvidiactl nvidia-smi returns NVML_ERROR_LIBRARY_NOT_FOUND (exit 12).
nvidia_major=$(grep -m1 ' nvidiactl$' /proc/devices 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $1}')
if [ -n "$nvidia_major" ]; then
mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidiactl c "$nvidia_major" 255 2>/dev/null || true
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
mknod -m 666 "/dev/nvidia$i" c "$nvidia_major" "$i" 2>/dev/null || true
done
einfo "created /dev/nvidiactl and /dev/nvidia{0-7} (major $nvidia_major)"
else
ewarn "/dev/nvidiactl: nvidia not in /proc/devices — no GPU hardware?"
fi
uvm_major=$(grep -m1 ' nvidia-uvm$' /proc/devices 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $1}')
if [ -n "$uvm_major" ]; then
mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidia-uvm c "$uvm_major" 0 2>/dev/null || true
mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidia-uvm-tools c "$uvm_major" 1 2>/dev/null || true
einfo "created /dev/nvidia-uvm (major $uvm_major)"
fi
eend 0
}