Toolkit omits glvnd EGL vendor manifest (10_nvidia.json): Vulkan fails with 'Found no drivers!' even with ICD mount + libegl1 #2128

Description

GPU containers started with NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=graphics (legacy mode, --gpus all) get the NVIDIA GL/Vulkan driver libraries mounted, but libglvnd's EGL vendor manifest (/usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/10_nvidia.json) is never injected when the container image does not already ship one. The Vulkan ICD manifest (nvidia_icd.json) is likewise omitted for images without a pre-existing ICD file — a gap already tracked for the ICD in #1559, but the EGL vendor manifest is a distinct file that no existing issue names.

Without 10_nvidia.json, the failure is silent and misleading: libGLX_nvidia.so.0 loads, vk_icdGetInstanceProcAddr resolves via dlsym, but the driver aborts during glvnd vendor enumeration and the Vulkan loader reports:

ERROR: loader_scanned_icd_add: Could not get 'vkCreateInstance' via
'vk_icdGetInstanceProcAddr' for ICD libGLX_nvidia.so.0
ERROR: vkCreateInstance: Found no drivers! (ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER)

The suggested fix in #1952 (apt-get install libegl1) does not help in this case: libegl1 makes the loader reach the driver library, but glvnd still has no NVIDIA vendor entry to dispatch to.

Mechanism (strace evidence)

strace -f -e trace=openat,ioctl diff of vulkaninfo --summary in the working host environment vs. inside the container:

• Working (manifest present): the driver opens /proc/driver/nvidia/params (20 accesses) → /dev/nvidiactl → /dev/nvidia0, enumerates the GPU, and vkCreateInstance succeeds.
• Failing (manifest absent): the trace ends during the egl_vendor.d directory scan — only 50_mesa.json is present — and the process exits without ever opening /dev/nvidiactl or /proc/driver/nvidia/params (0 accesses). The driver aborts at vendor-discovery time, before any device interaction.

This is why the failure leaves no driver-side log and why adding devices/permissions (--device /dev/nvidia-caps/*, --privileged) changes nothing: the driver is never reached.

To reproduce

Environment: driver installed via the official .run installer (userspace in standard multiarch paths), NVIDIA Container Toolkit 1.20.1, Docker with the nvidia runtime, legacy mode (--gpus all).

# image WITHOUT any pre-existing EGL vendor manifest or Vulkan ICD
docker build -t vk-minimal - <<'EOF'
FROM debian:trixie
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libvulkan1 vulkan-tools libegl1 libxext6 libx11-6
EOF

docker run --rm --gpus all -e NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=all --device /dev/dri \
  vk-minimal vulkaninfo --summary
# → "Found no drivers!" / ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER

# the same container with both manifests bind-mounted from the host:
docker run --rm --gpus all -e NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=all --device /dev/dri \
  -v /etc/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json:/etc/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json:ro \
  -v /usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/10_nvidia.json:/usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/10_nvidia.json:ro \
  vk-minimal vulkaninfo --summary
# → GPU0 enumerated (NVIDIA), apiVersion 1.4.x, works

Note the update-application-profile hook (from #1939, shipped in 1.20.0) runs and creates /etc/nvidia/nvidia-application-profiles-rc.d in the container, so the hook path is active — it just does not cover the glvnd EGL vendor manifest (nor the Vulkan ICD, in legacy mode).

Proposal

Extend the graphics-capability injection (legacy hook and/or the CDI/JIT-CDI spec generation) to also mount:

1. /usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/10_nvidia.json (libglvnd EGL vendor manifest)
2. the Vulkan ICD manifest nvidia_icd.json (from /etc/vulkan/icd.d/ or /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/, wherever the driver installer placed it)

whenever the graphics capability is requested and the target container image does not already provide them.

Related work

• Vuklan not recognized with nvidia-toolkit 1.18, Debian 13 Trixie #1559 — Vulkan ICD injection gap (maintainer-recognized); [Bug]: Cannot use Vulkan Inside Docker Container #1952, loader_scanned_icd_add: Could not get 'vkCreateInstance' via 'vk_icdGetInstanceProcAddr' for ICD libGLX_nvidia.so.0 #191 — same loader error, community fix libegl1 (insufficient for this case).
• nvidia-container-toolkit: CDI spec omits libglvnd EGL vendor JSON and Vulkan ICD JSON, breaking graphics in GPU containers NixOS/nixpkgs#529876 and nvidia-container-toolkit: mount EGL/Vulkan loader manifests NixOS/nixpkgs#539636 — independently reported the same two-manifest gap in the NixOS CDI module and fixed it by mounting both manifests; worth cross-linking, as this affects any environment where the base image lacks the manifests.

Environment

• Toolkit 1.20.1 (nvidia-ctk 1.20.1, commit dffc40b), legacy mode
• Driver installed via .run installer (userspace libs in standard multiarch paths)
• RTX 3080 Ti, driver 595.104.02, Vulkan apiVersion 1.4.329
• Kernel 7.0.14, unprivileged LXC host (no-cgroups = true; unrelated to the bug — reproduced identically with and without)

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