NVIDIA Driver installation fails

[ThePooN]

The NVIDIA driver 430.14 installer fails to extract itself apparently. It simply says "Extraction failed" at line 1364 of the logs: https://pastebin.com/ULdET12T
I have 10GB free on my root partition.

Running Docker 18.09.6-ce on Arch Linux with NVIDIA drivers 430.14.

[mviereck]

Thank you for reporting this!

I can confirm the issue, I'll look into it.

Curiously, creating a base image does not fail, although the installation is not obviously different.

[ThePooN]

Ah, thanks. I'll look into that as a workaround!

[mviereck]

The issue is fixed now.

Per default x11docker sets docker option --security-opt=no-new-privileges.
Previously this was no issue for installing NVIDIA drivers. Maybe something has changed within docker, and this option forbids more than before. I am not sure.

Now x11docker does not set this option anymore if an NVIDIA driver has to be installed.
I am not lucky about this because it is a strong security feature otherwise.

Please try out the latest master version of x11docker.

[mviereck]

x11docker release v6.0.0 includes the fix for this issue.

[mviereck]

@ThePooN Could you please run a test for me?

I recently did some code changes that affect the automated NVIDIA driver installation (compare #198 (comment)).
To my surprise I found that the issue of this ticket does not occur anymore.

To fix the issue I had to drop --security-opt=no-new-privileges although it worked before. Now it seems to work again. I've downgraded to Docker 18.09.6-ce, also no issue.
I assume it has been a bug somewhere in the docker dependencies that has been fixed meanwhile.

This command should fail if the issue is still present:

x11docker --gpu --init=systemd --newprivileges=no x11docker/check glxinfo | grep renderer

If the command succeeds, it should show the name of your graphics card.

[ThePooN]

Works successfully!

Thanks :)

[mviereck]

Thank you for the test!
Now the NVIDIA setup will run with much less privileges than before, great.