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2026-09-07 23:54 [misc]

NVIDIA Container Toolkit version pinning note

An unattended dnf update bumped the NVIDIA driver without touching nvidia-container-toolkit, and GPU containers started failing with "CUDA driver version is insufficient for CUDA runtime version" — despite nvidia-smi looking completely normal on the host.

Fix going forward: pin both packages together, or patch them in the same maintenance window deliberately rather than letting either update independently.

# EOF