Initial boot configuration succeeds but unminimize command fails and changes the desktop in a bad way (10/21/2020 Nano Image)

Autonomous Machines Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Nano
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I am trying to set up my Jetson Nano B01 board with the latest nvidia image ( JetPack 4.4.1 released 10/21/2020) and unminimize the OS.

The initial setup and boot goes fine but when I run the unminimize command it fails and changes the window manager from the one in the initial boot to one I find unusable (openbox-lxde).
By running sudo dpkg --configure -a (as suggested in the unminimize logs) followed by sudo unminimize --fix-missing, I was able to persuade the unminimize process to complete. However, it did not revert the desktop back to it’s state before I ran unminimize.

So my question is, is this supposed to happen to the desktop? I find the fonts unreadably small on my 1920 x 1080 displays. I can’t deduce what is what on the desktop and menus. And I don’t think I should have to spend several hours finding all the places I need to change font sizes to make the desktop usable.

Does anyone have any suggestions for reverting to the original window manager? Should I wait for a new image to be released that fixes unminimize?

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I believe we didn’t verify unminimize.

What is the exact steps to hit your error? I don’t quite understand the connection between your problem with openbox-lxde.

Do you mean you’ve replaced the window manager to openbox-lxde and then you tried unminimize command?

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I mean that when I rebooted after unminimize failed the window manager was openbox-lxde instead of the normal one.

steps to reproduce:

  1. dd the 10/21/2020 nano 4g image onto an SD card
  2. plug the SD card into the nano and go through the setup process.
    If I reboot here, the window manager has not been changed
  3. sudo unminimize (script aborts before completion)
  4. reboot
    when the system comes back up the window manager is openbox-lxde

I also tried running the recovery steps for unminimize before rebooting
3.1) sudo dpkg --configure -a
3.2) sudo unminimize --fix-missing

and while the recovery steps appeared to work, the window manager was still changed to openbox-lxde

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Hi,

I guess we don’t support this currently. Will check with internal team and see if we can fix this.

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Hi jeffleonard0401,

We tried to reproduce issue, but after run “sudo unminimize” and reboot, the device can’t boot up, stuck on NVIDIA logo.

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I tried to reproduce again after seeing your message. I get different results than before. Now my nano crashes, reboots itself and comes back up in the other window manager. I have attached a log from running unminimize as well as the syslog. initialboot.tar.gz (144.4 KB)

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Hi,

Please do not use unminimize at this moment. We will check what is going on.

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The openbox-lxde is for Nano-2GB product because it will take less memory consumption.
Somehow the unminimize process cause the board to switch display manager to lightdm + lxde.