Nvidia-docker not working in jetson nano

Autonomous Machines Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Nano
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I successfully booted in the jetson nano os with my SD card, set up wifi, and installed automatic apt-based upgrades.

I followed these instructions to get nvidia-docker up and running Installation Guide — NVIDIA Cloud Native Technologies documentation

Everything seems like it’s fine until this command

sudo docker run --rm --gpus all nvidia/cuda:11.0-base nvidia-smi

terminates in

docker: Error response from daemon: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:349: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:449: container init caused \"process_linux.go:432: running prestart hook 0 caused \\\"error running hook: exit status 1, stdout: , stderr: nvidia-container-cli: initialization error: driver error: failed to process request\\\\n\\\"\"": unknown.

I thought drivers came preconfigured? in any case, on nvidia’s driver download menu there’s no option for Tegra X1 or Maxwell

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Hi,

The tutorial you shared is for the desktop user.
https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/install-guide.html#platform-requirements

Platform Requirements

The list of prerequisites for running NVIDIA Container Toolkit is described below:

  1. GNU/Linux x86_64 with kernel version > 3.10
    …

For Jetson, docker is pre-installed in the L4T OS.
You can find a tutorial below:

Thanks.

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This doesn’t really help when using L4T/BSP tools to build a custom image. Is there a way to install the same docker from the L4T OS manually in a standard Ubuntu rootfs instead?

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Sorry I was able to figure out how to install it correctly from inside the rootfs so the resulting image had the correct version of nvidia-docker.

echo "deb https://repo.download.nvidia.com/jetson/common r32.5 main" >> $ROOTFS_DIR/etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-docker.list

chroot $ROOTFS_DIR bash -c "apt-key adv --fetch-key https://repo.download.nvidia.com/jetson/jetson-ota-public.asc"
chroot $ROOTFS_DIR bash -c "apt update"
chroot $ROOTFS_DIR bash -c "apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests nvidia-docker2"

You can’t really just install it after apply_binaries.sh because it will have a <SOC> in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-l4t-apt-source.list which gets replaces on first boot and it errors out.

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Hi,

After applying the command above , does docker run well on your customized image?

Thanks.

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Yea it seems to be working as expected. I ran into an issue with X11 and Indirect GLX rendering (trying to run chromium inside a container). But that also happens on the prebuilt OS and I don’t think it’s anything to do with my custom image or the BSP tools.

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Hi,

For the new issue, could you file a new topic for it?

Thanks.

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Yea sorry, I may do that at some point. I am still learning so it’s probably something I am doing wrong. If I can’t make any progress I will open a new topic.