Error while flashing Jetson AGX devkit

[simgt]

I'm using the following Dockerfile:

FROM ubuntu:focal
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
ENV TZ=Etc/UTC
RUN apt update
RUN apt install -y git nodejs npm usbutils zip
RUN git clone https://github.com/balena-os/jetson-flash.git
RUN cd jetson-flash/
RUN git config --global url."https://github".insteadOf git://github
RUN npm install

Which I'm building and running with:

docker build -t jetson-flash .
docker run -it --privileged -v /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb -v /path/to/img/folder:/work jetson-flash /bin/bash

I'm getting the following output when trying to flash from inside the container:

$ lsusb | grep NVIDIA
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0955:7019 NVIDIA Corp. APX
$ ./bin/cmd.js -f /work/balena-cloud-agx-devkit-jetson-xavier-2.99.27+rev1-v14.0.8.img -m jetson-xavier
Consistency check done for /tmp/941/Linux_for_Tegra
Saved in /tmp/941
Successfully generated hash
Checking resin cache
Cache image check done
Extracting partition bootloader-dtb from /tmp/941/resin/img to /tmp/941/resin
Extracting partition bootloader-dtb_b from /tmp/941/resin/img to /tmp/941/resin
Extracting partition kernel from /tmp/941/resin/img to /tmp/941/resin
Extracting partition kernel_b from /tmp/941/resin/img to /tmp/941/resin
Extracting partition kernel-dtb from /tmp/941/resin/img to /tmp/941/resin
Extracting partition kernel-dtb_b from /tmp/941/resin/img to /tmp/941/resin
Extracting partition BMP from /tmp/941/resin/img to /tmp/941/resin
Extracting partition BMP_b from /tmp/941/resin/img to /tmp/941/resin
Extracting partition bpmp-fw-dtb from /tmp/941/resin/img to /tmp/941/resin
Extracting partition bpmp-fw-dtb_b from /tmp/941/resin/img to /tmp/941/resin
Extracting partition resin-boot from /tmp/941/resin/img to /tmp/941/resin
Extracting partition resin-rootA from /tmp/941/resin/img to /tmp/941/resin
Extracting partition resin-rootB from /tmp/941/resin/img to /tmp/941/resin
Extracting partition resin-state from /tmp/941/resin/img to /tmp/941/resin
Extracting partition resin-data from /tmp/941/resin/img to /tmp/941/resin
Data partition size in bytes: 212860928
Successfully generated hash
ODMDATA not specified, using default value set by BSP archive
(node:941) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: undefined
(node:941) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:941) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

I've tried the few suggestions I found in other issues, like removing /tmp/Linux_for_Tegra, as well as older releases of jetson-flash, without success.

Any ideas? 🙂

[simgt]

Thinking Docker could be to blame, I've started from a fresh Ubuntu 20.04. Installing everything (which wasn't an easy task) led me to more errors poping up from Node... At this point I'm starting to wonder if this tool is meant to be used at all. Is there an alternative for flashing my devkit and add it to my fleet?

[pgils]

Hi. You might need to install sudo. https://github.com/balena-os/jetson-flash/blob/891a90e1266c22e98ee8f4302d5b925b467a8bcd/lib/resin-jetson-flash.js#L257-L264

[alanb128]

@higmo I added a working Dockerfile to the Docker folder in this branch: https://github.com/balena-os/jetson-flash/tree/alanb128-doc - it will hopefully be merged shortly. Docker instructions are included in the README as well.

[simgt]

Thanks a lot @alanb128! I ended up managing to flash my board with an Ubuntu Live after a couple hours of fiddling, but that'll be handy for next time!