Hi everyone, I just received my DGX Spark and I’m unable to complete the initial setup. I’ve tried every approach I could think of and I’m running out of ideas before opening a support ticket for a potential hardware fault. Here’s a detailed breakdown of what I’ve tried: Setup Environment Connect…

There was a temporary degradation in Canonical’s servers which may have interfered with some units setup. [image] Temporary performance degradation on connectivity-check service Announcements On 21 March 2026 04:55 UTC, Canonic…

A flurry of these problems being reported today. Super awesome to see. The ethernet interface gets assigned an ip address and I can ping it, but the headless system setup page doesn’t respond either.

I’m experiencing the same problem. I’m in the reinstallation process, but WiFi to LAN cable connection, current time setting, phone tethering, WPA2 all won’t proceed.

I’m experiencing the same. Everything seems to go well until the “checking network health” message. I’m getting stalled connections while downloading the recovery image. Could this be an issue with Nvidia’s network or servers?

I have experienced the same problems with a new Spark: no setup method works, they all fail on connectivity test stage, Ethernet’s not recognized, using an open wifi SSID didn’t help, resetting the OS with dgx-spark-recovery-image-1.120.38.tar.gz didn’t help either. I can supply diagnostics and log…

I tried rebooting 3 times, but when I press Ctrl+Alt+F2, it goes to the process of shutting down the PC from WiFi, and after a few minutes there… After forcing a shutdown by pressing the power switch once, it can go directly to the GX10 main screen without that part. There were no problems with wir…

Thanks @aniculescu , that was indeed the issue! I just tried again and everything works perfectly now. The setup completed without any problems. Really appreciate you looking into it and sharing the root cause!

Canonical has confirmed that the issue has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.

DGX Spark initial setup stuck in infinite WiFi loop – LAN also not recognized

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sjug March 21, 2026, 3:44am 6

Seeing the exact same issue on a new unit. Ethernet isn’t detected, WiFi fails on many different SSIDs. Flashed the latest recovery iso, made zero difference.

Posted a patch for anyone else that might want to get past this issue:

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DGX Spark initial setup stuck in infinite WiFi loop – LAN also not recognized

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