Jetson orin NX flash failure

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Orin NX
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When I tried to flash my Jetson orin NX with Jetpack 5.1.2 I’m getting this error:

Writing qspi_bootblob_ver.txt (parittion: A_VER) into /dev/mtd0
Sha1 checksum matched for /mnt/internal/qspi_bootblob_ver.txt
Writing /mnt/internal/qspi_bootblob_ver.txt (109 bytes) into  /dev/mtd0:66977792
Copied 109 bytes from /mnt/internal/qspi_bootblob_ver.txt to address 0x03fe0000 in flash
Writing gpt_secondary_3_0.bin (parittion: secondary_gpt) into /dev/mtd0
Sha1 checksum matched for /mnt/internal/gpt_secondary_3_0.bin
Writing /mnt/internal/gpt_secondary_3_0.bin (16896 bytes) into  /dev/mtd0:67091968
Copied 16896 bytes from /mnt/internal/gpt_secondary_3_0.bin to address 0x03ffbe00 in flash
[ 195]: l4t_flash_from_kernel: Successfully flash the qspi
[ 195]: l4t_flash_from_kernel: Failed to write to APP
[ 195]: l4t_flash_from_kernel: The device size indicated in the partition layout xml is smaller than the actual size. This utility will try to fix the GPT.
[ 195]: l4t_flash_from_kernel: Error flashing external device
Flash failure
Cleaning up...

I tried from my colleague laptop and he was successfully able to flash.

I tried to do an OTA package generation and update from my end. So I thought I have some corruption with the sdk and I once again cloned the whole sdk and tried still getting the same error

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Hi,

Could you provide the commands and the full log that meets the failure?
We also recommend use the sdk manager to flash our device.

Also some questions to confirm:

  • Is your Orin NX using a dev kit or a custom carrier board?
  • Our official host requirement is Ubuntu 20.04/18.04 running on a physical machine not a virtual machine (e.g. WSL, VirtualBox, VMware). Do your host meet the requirement?

Thanks

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Flashing command :

sudo ./tools/kernel_flash/l4t_initrd_flash.sh --external-device nvme0n1p1 -c tools/kernel_flash/flash_l4t_external.xml -p "-c bootloader/t186ref/cfg/flash_t234_qspi.xml" --showlogs --network usb0 p3509-a02+p3767-0000 external

What I found from the log is that
[ 15]: l4t_flash_from_kernel: APP image /mnt/external/ is not found !!!
I cross checked with my colleague successful log he doesn’t have this.
I was able to flash the device earlier from my laptop using the same command.
My orin NX is using a jetson xavier nx carrier board.
My ubuntu requirements are fine.

Please find the attached full flash log
flash.log (261.2 KB)

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Hi,

some questions to confirm:

  • What is your target version in ota update (from JP 5.1.2 to ?)

Also please dump the UART log during the flash process.

Thanks

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