Apps fail to start after GPU change – old UUID still used in user_config.yaml

[LarsR]

It’s a known issue
this post has the fix

Docker Apps and UUID issue with NVIDIA GPU after upgrade to 24.10 or 25.04

Morning all, We’re tracking an issue with Apps that impacts NVIDIA users, which we’ve now added to the Known Issues page of our release notes. Some users who have upgraded to 24.10 or 25.04 from a previous version, and who have applications with have NVIDIA GPU allocations, report the error Expected [uuid] to be set for GPU inslot [<some pci slot>] in [nvidia_gpu_selection]) (see NAS-132086). Users experiencing this error should follow the steps below for a one time fix that should not need t…