Hi all, I’m running Ubuntu 24.04 on an NVIDIA DGX Spark and have noticed it will automatically reboot after applying updates with no warning, even mid-session. This is a problem when running long compute jobs.
Has anyone found a way to disable the automatic reboot, or at least get it to prompt before rebooting? Happy to hear if there’s a config file or service to modify.
Thanks
I saw people saying the updates are mostly same to apt update + apt upgrade which I think it doesn’t required reboot? (ec/firmware updates are in another application, not sure if apt can update it)
I usually only update during my task ended.
You won’t want your library/pacakge/driver been update or changed at the same time that spark is running your jobs right?..
The manual update commands in the docs are:
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo fwupdmgr refresh
sudo fwupdmgr upgrade
sudo reboot
If the dashboard is doing the same, seems like it will always reboot regardless of whether it’s necessary. Perhaps you could get a way with manually running the commands without the reboot, I’m not sure (nvidia recommend updating through the dashboard, but I’m not sure why it makes a difference, I’ve not seen any explanation of what it would do differently).
I believe they just want people doing what they “recommand” without missing any step, and if there is any problem, they will be able to reproduce it (possibly).