Argus InvalidState: CaptureProvider destroyed - camera cannot be reopened without restarting nvargus-daemon (Orin Nano, JetPack 6.2)

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson Systems Jetson Orin Nano
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Setup

  • Board: Jetson Orin Nano
  • JetPack 6.2 - L4T R36.4.4, kernel 5.15.148-tegra
  • Camera: onsemi AR2020 MIPI-CSI (sensor-id 4)
  • Capture: nvarguscamerasrc sensor-id=4 ! video/x-raw(memory:NVMM),width=5120,height=3840,format=NV12,framerate=10/1, running continuously

Problem
After a long period of continuous streaming, the camera can no longer be opened. Every attempt to create a capture session fails immediately, and nvargus-daemon repeats the following two errors (~2× per second, ~250 in 5 minutes). Our client
reaches PLAYING, receives no frames, EOS’s, and retries in a loop. The state does not clear on its own - the client and container can be restarted indefinitely and it keeps failing. The only recovery is sudo systemctl restart nvargus-daemon.

nvargus-daemon logs (repeating):
(Argus) Error InvalidState: CaptureProvider destroyed
(in src/api/CameraProviderImpl.cpp, function createCaptureSessionInternal(), line 260)
(Argus) Error InvalidState: Object was already destroyed
(in src/common/ObjectImpl.cpp, function destroyClientReference(), line 47)
Each cycle looks like: Connection established → CameraProvider initialized → (Argus) Error InvalidState: CaptureProvider destroyed, then CameraProvider destroyed → Object was already destroyed, then the client disconnects and retries.

Recovery: sudo systemctl restart nvargus-daemon clears it; restarting only the client application does not.

Questions

  1. What causes the CaptureProvider / internal Argus object to become “destroyed” such that all subsequent createCaptureSessionInternal() calls return InvalidState?
  2. Once in this state, is there any way for a client to recover the CameraProvider without restarting nvargus-daemon?
  3. Are there known fixes for this in a newer L4T r36.x
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Apply the patch from below to verify.

Please get the daemon log by journalctl -u nvargus-daemon -f

[Argus] Long run stability issue.
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/318999/5
(Fixed in Jetpack 6.2.2 r36.5)