I made the mistake of updating my DGX Spark drivers to `nvidia-driver-590` via : sudo apt update sudo apt install nvidia-driver-590 My system now is completely bricked. As soon as I login, it freezes in a matter of 1 min or less. I am trying to disable the display or anything in the hopes that I …

Glad to see you were able to recover. We would like to reiterate that any drivers that are not installed with the OS are not officially supported and we cannot predict what may happen if you try to upgrade or downgrade.

As long as you can login via ssh you should be able to fix it. [image] Upgrading the GPU Driver from 580 to 590 on DGX Spark using CLI DGX Spark / GB10 Which package did you install? The meta-package nvidia-driver-590-open? Then apt purge nvidia-driver-590-o…

@cosinus : ssh freezes in the same timeframe. I can execute 1 quick command per hard reset. Execution time seems to increase exponentially from the moment the spark boots. Never seem anything behaving like this before.

Well. That’s bad. But you could try to get the box into single user mode. Other users succeeded doing so, because they had docker workloads that restarted immediately after reboot leading to OOMs. It requires to either have a root password set or to boot “into /bin/bash” without the need of an pas…

@cosinus you are brilliant! I realised that there were some docker containers that were restarting together with my system. That’s what was bricking it!!! I will try the downgrade now to be on the safer side! Thank you!

You’re welcome! Glad I could help. I’m tackling with Unix/Linux systems for quite some time now. That must be good for something. ;-) It would be easier with a fully blown rescue image - not just the recovery image for the FEs. OEMs like ASUS and I believe Dell offer an ISO for that.

Does recovery mode not work on the DGX Spark? I thought the OS is just Ubuntu w/nvidia’s configuration.

Maybe that helps [image] Failed to load NVIDIA drivers after update to 590 DGX Spark / GB10 Sorry stupid me saying that I had the same issue without giving help - yeah I ask gemini what to do. It was quite a scary situation / process I ask gemini to write a sh…

Bricked spark after updating drivers to `nvidia-driver-590`

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martinB78 March 29, 2026, 8:32pm 9

Maybe that helps

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Bricked spark after updating drivers to `nvidia-driver-590`

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