Sorry, I do not know that version.
It was upgraded every 2-3 months. The original SD card image was 1 year old.
I also had trouble with lightdm on my 4GB Nano so it’s good to hear that officially it doesn’t work.
We will fix this issue in next jetpack release. Sorry for the inconvenience here.
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@WayneWWW, when you say fix the issue, do you mean the core issue that after apt upgrade the graphical desktop won’t start correctly anymore?
Do you have an estimate on when that fix will be released?
Thank you for all the help!!!
It would be released recently.
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Ran into this issue today on a Nano 2gb. Clean image worked fine then after updating all the packages and rebooting I am getting the blank screen. Same as what fcomg_e outlined in the video.
Great i hope i can update my Jetson nano 2GB soon! I’ve broke an image twice, can i confirm that holding systems will allow a successful upgrade with GUI starting properly after reboot?
Not sure if you have a typo. It should be “systemd”
Yes, I’m fighting with Google autocorrect again. Ok so anyways, can i get your confirmation regarding updating? I don’t want to reflash my system again…
Yesterday i had a black screen after updating my nano 2Gb after a fresh install, so the issue is not fixed.
But you can continue if you make this workaround (i tested it):
- do a new fresh install
- hold systemd
sudo apt update
sudo apt-mark hold systemd
sudo apt upgrade
reboot
I did not try software updater after that
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I encountered this issue as well on my 2GB, and @permafrost55 suggestion to do systemctel restart gdm3 workaround works for me (when I connect to the Nano using serial console mode.
@interactivetech1 I did find one issue. gdm3 uses a lot more memory and resources than lightDM. So I was having issues with my raspberry pi connected camera.
I’m really hoping NVidia can find the underlying issue so we can move forward. Instead of just saying we can’t update/upgrade. That’s not a fix, that’s a band aid.
Sorry to be harsh, but not being able to upgrade isn’t good long term.
When can we expect to see a new build without these issues? I can also confirm that @geologic.si workaround did not give me booting issues upon a sudo apt upgrade.
hey mods can we please sticky this thread. as a lot of users are going through this issue and it would be very helpful to see it on the top of the fourm.
It seems to be an issue with lightdm. I just used ctrl-alt-f2 to switch to a different term after the screen goes blank on boot and switched to gdm.
any idea on when the fix will be issued? thanks
Any update regarding the fix ? coming with Santa :-) ?
I also have this issue too as well. I recently bought the jetson nano 2GB model from Amazon. I then flashed the board and then went through the setup process. When I did an apt update and apt upgrade I got the issue that a lot of people on this forum seem to be having: a blank screen after reboot. I went ahead and reinstalled the jetson nano 2GB kit image and again when I did “sudo apt update” and “sudo apt upgrade” I got a blank screen. As a workaround, I switched to gdm3 for my display manager but as someone noted in the forum, gdm3 consumes a lot of memory. When might there be a fix for this issue?
Any permanent solution to this? Even I’m facing the same issue after software update only see blank screen. Will try #7 solution but what about if some software update comes further?
I tried update because with default image csi camera wasn’t detected, it needed driver update. To flash a new image and again setup isn’t a good solution.
Hello
I am experiencing the same problem: I got Jetson Nano2GB a few weeks ago (amazon) and wanted to try it this morning.
after creating the. system image in microSD,
booted and started Nano2GB , everything OK.
connected wifi, and then updated softwares (~450MB),
Asked for rebooting and I did.
Nvidia logo appears followed by a few lines of logging texts shown up on screen and then comes the black screen. I noticed that the monitor still getting the signal.
someone posted above, so I did “ctrl-alt-F5” followed by “startx” brings Ubuntu IDE (18.04.5 LTS) but not LXDE desktop environment.
Please advise
Bulent
I recently start a fresh install on jetson nano 2gb and performed sudo apt-get update / upgrade and I landed in the same issue with the blank screen… Is there a solution to the problem?
What is the workaround to this problem. Should we stop updating/upgrading the system.
Just a thought on figuring out packages causing an issue. Would anyone with an issue like this attach the apt logs, along with whether the apt-get upgrade was automatic, or performed on command line? Log files to attach (may require a file name change for the forum to accept):
/var/log/apt/eipp.log.xz/var/log/apt/history.log/var/log/apt/term.log
In the case of eipp.log.xz, if the forum won’t allow it, then change the file to a new name via:
xzcat /var/log/apt/eipp.log.xz > eipp.log
(and then use eipp.log instead)
Note: Anything named “.log” will be plain text, and thus it can also be renamed with a “.txt” file name extension.
Special note on “history.log”: These will be log rotated, and older logs will exist. The “history.log.1.gz” will be the more recent of the rotated old logs. If you look at the timestamp on the logs you should be able to know for sure that just plain old “history.log” contains the information from the “apt” command which caused the problem. If you have checked the log some significant time after the actual apt command which caused the problem, then you may need to look at the timestamps to see the correct log:
ls -ltr /var/log/apt/history*
(this lists them in reverse chronological order…most recent will be the last one printed)
If we know the exact package with the issue, then it may be possible to find the original package version and revert with a simple command line operation. This would also make it known which package needs to be marked hold, and make it possible for NVIDIA to create or edit a package to prevent this in the future.