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This indicates vLLM failed to initialize the NCCL communicator, possibly due to a missing `IPC_LOCK` linux capability or an unmounted `/dev/shm`. Refer to [Enabling GPUDirect RDMA](../serving/parallelism_scaling.md#enabling-gpudirect-rdma) for guidance on properly configuring the environment for GPUDirect RDMA.

## CUDA error: the provided PTX was compiled with an unsupported toolchain

If you see an error like `RuntimeError: CUDA error: the provided PTX was compiled with an unsupported toolchain.`, it means that the CUDA PTX in vLLM's wheels was compiled with a toolchain unsupported by your system. The released vLLM wheels have to be compiled with a specific version of CUDA toolkit, and the compiled code might fail to run on lower versions of CUDA drivers. Read [cuda compatibility](https://docs.nvidia.com/deploy/cuda-compatibility/) for more details. The solution is to install `cuda-compat` package from your package manager. For example, on Ubuntu, you can run `sudo apt-get install cuda-compat-12-9`, and then add `export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-12.9/compat:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH` to your `.bashrc` file. When successfully installed, you should see that the output of `nvidia-smi` will show `CUDA Version: 12.9`. Note that we use CUDA 12.9 as an example here, you may want to install a higher version of cuda-compat package in case vLLM's default CUDA version goes higher.

## Known Issues

- In `v0.5.2`, `v0.5.3`, and `v0.5.3.post1`, there is a bug caused by [zmq](https://github.com/zeromq/pyzmq/issues/2000) , which can occasionally cause vLLM to hang depending on the machine configuration. The solution is to upgrade to the latest version of `vllm` to include the [fix](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/6759).
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