A few problems with 24.04 and Jetson Orin Nano

[shuhaowu]

Thanks for the image! I built a 24.04 image for the Jetson Orin Nano and noticed a few issues:

• It seems like the ethernet device is renamed automatically, which means the netplan file is not automatically causing ethernet to connect with DHCP. The ethernet interface name I'm getting is enP8p1s0. I had to adjust the netplan file to make this work:

network:
  version: 2
  renderer: networkd
  ethernets:
    eth0:
      match:
        name: en*
      dhcp4: true
    eth1:
      match:
        name: eth*
      dhcp4: true

• After install, CUDA programs and nvidia-smi only runs as the root user. This is fixed by adding the jetson user to the render group: usermod -a -G render jetson.

• The time synchronization is not working after boot because systemd-timesyncd seems to think the machine is running as a container, due to the ConditionVirtualizaton=!container check in the service file. This is a problem as certificate checks rely on the correct time and the system can initialize at Unix epoch. I'm not sure why this is being detected as a container, but I added an override file via systemctl edit systemd-timesyncd.service with the following override content:

[Unit]
ConditionVirtualization=

• The nv-l4t-bootloader-config.service seems to not run. This service seems to be for updating the UEFI? It fails with the following logs. I have not figured out how to make it run yet:

Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano systemd[1]: Starting nv-l4t-bootloader-config.service - Configure bootloader service...
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano nv-l4t-bootloader-config.sh[1147]: 3767--0005--1--jetson-orin-nano-devkit-
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano nv-l4t-bootloader-config.sh[1408]: TNSPEC 3767-300-0005-K.2-1-0-jetson-orin-nano-devkit-
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano nv-l4t-bootloader-config.sh[1408]: COMPATIBLE_SPEC 3767--0005--1--jetson-orin-nano-devkit-
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano nv-l4t-bootloader-config.sh[1408]: TEGRA_CHIPID 0x23
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano nv-l4t-bootloader-config.sh[1408]: TEGRA_OTA_BOOT_DEVICE /dev/mtdblock0
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano nv-l4t-bootloader-config.sh[1408]: TEGRA_OTA_GPT_DEVICE /dev/mtdblock0
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano nv-l4t-bootloader-config.sh[1147]: Info: Spec variable TegraPlatformSpec is not found.
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano nv-l4t-bootloader-config.sh[1147]: Info: Write TegraPlatformSpec with 3767-300-0005-K.2-1-0-jetson-orin-nano-devkit-.
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano nv-l4t-bootloader-config.sh[1410]: chattr: No such file or directory while trying to stat /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/TegraPl>
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano nv-l4t-bootloader-config.sh[1147]: Info: Spec variable TegraPlatformCompatSpec is not found.
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano nv-l4t-bootloader-config.sh[1147]: Info: Write TegraPlatformCompatSpec with 3767--0005--1--jetson-orin-nano-devkit-.
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano nv-l4t-bootloader-config.sh[1413]: chattr: No such file or directory while trying to stat /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/TegraPl>
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano nv-l4t-bootloader-config.sh[1147]: Info: The esp is not mounted to /boot/efi.
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano nv-l4t-bootloader-config.sh[1419]: EFI variables are not supported on this system.
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano nv-l4t-bootloader-config.sh[1147]: Error: Failed to get BootCurrent by efibootmgr.
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano systemd[1]: nv-l4t-bootloader-config.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano systemd[1]: nv-l4t-bootloader-config.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 01 00:06:33 orinnano systemd[1]: Failed to start nv-l4t-bootloader-config.service - Configure bootloader service.

Anyways once again thanks for this image.

(Disclaimer: I'm here on a personal basis and am not affiliated with Jetson or know anything about it)

[pythops]

Thanks for reporting those issues and the fixes for them.
I will look into the last point, that one I was not aware of

[shuhaowu]

Another one that I remembered:

newgrp doesn't have the setuid bit on it so it doesn't work. Fixed with chmod +s.

[pythops]

I don't have much time these days but PRs are always welcome :)

[shuhaowu]

Some more for documentation reasons:

• wpasupplicant cannot be installed with nvidia-l4t-tools.

dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/wpasupplicant_2%3a2.10-21ubuntu0.3_arm64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant', which is also in package nvidia-l4t-tools 36.4.7-20250918154033

• fwupdmgr is needed for nvidia-l4t-bootloader

ERROR. fwupdmgr is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package nvidia-l4t-bootloader (--configure):
 installed nvidia-l4t-bootloader package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

Even then, it still doesn't quite work:

Failed to connect to daemon: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.fwupd: Timeout was reached
ERROR. NULL Device ID.
dpkg: error processing package nvidia-l4t-bootloader (--configure):
 installed nvidia-l4t-bootloader package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nvidia-l4t-bootloader

This seems to be because fwupd.service is not starting because polkit.service is not starting.