Failed to create EGLImage. - nvinfer

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• Hardware Platform Jetson
• DeepStream Version: 7.1
• JetPack Version (valid for Jetson only):12.6
• NVIDIA GPU Driver Version (valid for GPU only)- 540.5.0

I am facing below issue when running deepstream pipeline on Jetson with SSH from laptop with x11 forwarding enabled

0:00:01.143642700 10522 0xaaab0000d330 INFO nvinfer gstnvinfer.cpp:684:gst_nvinfer_logger: NvDsInferContext[UID 1]: Info from NvDsInferContextImpl::generateBackendContext() <nvdsinfer_context_impl.cpp:2195> [UID = 1]: Use deserialized engine model: /home/arivu/nvidia/models/peoplenet_vpruned_quantized_decrypted_v2.3.4/resnet34_peoplenet_int8.onnx_b1_gpu0_fp32.engine
nvbufsurface: Failed to create EGLImage.
0:00:01.145473645 10522 0xaaab0000d330 ERROR nvinferallocator gstnvinfer_allocator.cpp:107:gst_nvinfer_allocator_alloc: Error: Could not map EglImage from NvBufSurface for nvinfer
0:00:01.145500110 10522 0xaaab0000d330 WARN GST_BUFFER gstbuffer.c:958:gst_buffer_new_allocate: failed to allocate 88 bytes
0:00:01.145515727 10522 0xaaab0000d330 WARN bufferpool gstbufferpool.c:318:do_alloc_buffer: alloc function failed
0:00:01.145524719 10522 0xaaab0000d330 WARN bufferpool gstbufferpool.c:351:default_start: failed to allocate buffer
0:00:01.145531791 10522 0xaaab0000d330 ERROR bufferpool gstbufferpool.c:572:gst_buffer_pool_set_active: start failed
0:00:01.145544432 10522 0xaaab0000d330 WARN nvinfer gstnvinfer.cpp:1010:gst_nvinfer_start: error: Failed to set buffer pool to active
2026-02-17 14:46:20,664 - root - ERROR - ============================================================
2026-02-17 14:46:20,664 - root - ERROR - ❌ PIPELINE ERROR from primary-infer

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