Upgrade to 7.2.5 Breaks NVIDIA Driver v580.159.03
Expected Behavior
The upgrade process to reboot my system and my GPU working as before the upgrade (I went from 7.2.4 to 7.2.5)
Actual Behavior
What actually happened? After the upgrade to 7.2.5 all Docker containers using the GPU could not start. In the Nvidia driver page it had a message like “Cannot communicate with nvidia-smi”
Steps to Reproduce
Have a system on Unraid 7.2.4, With a GP107 GPU (a P1000 in my case)
Use the Nvidia Driver plugin to install 580.159.03
Start the Unraid upgrade to 7.2.5
After the update is installed and a reboot, the driver will no longer work.
Additional Context
This gentleman on Reddit suggested I log this as a bug report, a few other people in that thread reporting this too https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/1t0av6c/unraid_os_725_is_now_available/oj8xesx/
Nvidia uses DKMS so the init needs to be updated if there is a kernel change. I am surprised that unraid doesn't do that by default. But it also seems there is no dkms status command in the OS, so be aware everytime the kernel changes you may have to do this.
For now you uninstall the current 580, reboot, install 580, reboot and you should be fine.
Workarounds
I fixed it by installing a later, incompatible with my gpu version, rebooting, then installing 580.159.03 again and then rebooting.
Screenshots / Videos / Diagnostics
Diagnostics attached. I started the upgrade about 00:05 on 2026-05-01