Jetson Thor frequent kernel: NVRM: nvAssertFailed: Assertion failed: 0 @ g_kern_bus_nvoc.h:2706

  • new Jetson Thor installation, dual monitors, no load
  • JetPack 7.0 [L4T 38.2.0]
  • system halts for a few seconds frequently, reboot does not solve issue
  • when issue occurs, it is noticed the following kernel message: kernel: NVRM: nvAssertFailed: Assertion failed: 0 @ g_kern_bus_nvoc.h:2706
  • Noticed issue doesn’t occur with only 1 monitor.

grep “NVRM: nvAssertFailed: Assertion failed” /var/log/kern.log | wc -l
212

lspci
0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation Device 22e6
0000:01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 2b00 (rev a1)
0001:00:00.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation Device 22d8
0001:01:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8852CE PCIe 802.11ax Wireless Network Controller (rev 01)
0002:00:00.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation Device 22d8
0002:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8126 (rev 01)
0005:00:00.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation Device 22d8
0005:01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Sandisk Corp WD PC SN5000S M.2 2280 NVMe SSD (DRAM-less)

More system info:

OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS aarch64

Host: NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit

Kernel: 6.8.12-tegra

Resolution: 3840x2160, 3440x1440

Terminal: gnome-terminal

GPU: NVIDIA 01:00.0 NVIDIA Corporation Device 2b00

Memory: 5194MiB / 125772MiB