TX2 - Jetpack 3.2 flash failed

Autonomous Machines Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson TX2
#1

I am trying to flash Jetpack 3.2 on to TX2. I have ubuntu16.04 host, Tx2 gets recognized and shows up in lsusb.

Flash works until [ 14.0528 ] Writing partition APP with system.img

it errors out as below

[ 14.1009 ] [… ] 025%
[ 14.1009 ] [… ] 025%
[ 14.1009 ] [… ] 025%
[ 14.1009 ] [… ] 025%
[ 14.1009 ] [… ] 025%
[ 14.1009 ] [… ] 025%
[ 14.1009 ] [… ] 025%
[ 14.1009 ] [… ] 025%
[ 14.1009 ] [… ] 025%
[ 1234.6186 ]
Error: Return value 3
Command tegradevflash_v2 --pt flash.xml.bin --create
Failed flashing t186ref.

I can send the complete log file. There are no space constraint in the box.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev
tmpfs 395M 6.1M 389M 2% /run
/dev/sda1 193G 25G 159G 14% /
tmpfs 2.0G 188K 2.0G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 395M 48K 395M 1% /run/user/1000

cs@csvm:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0955:7c18 NVidia Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 80ee:0021 VirtualBox USB Tablet
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
flash_os_tx2.log (246 KB)

#2

I have attached the flash logs for reference.

This error is reproducible from other my another mac as well.

#3

You’re trying to flash from VirtualBox. This is not supported, and know to cause trouble.

Try booting from a USB “live” drive, and flash from running Ubuntu native, instead.

#4

Keep in mind that not all “live” drives have a kernel with loopback support. In some cases this will fail at generating the rootfs image. Also, if using a live drive, keep in mind that the file system type from which the system image is generated must be a native Linux type…FUSE and some others do not support preserving Linux permissions.

You can check if loopback is supported with “sudo losetup --find”, and then see if the reported first unused loop device shows up as “/dev/loop0” (or whichever number).

You can check file system type if you cd to where the software is being installed on the host and running “df -H -T .” (the “.” is important).

#5

thanks for the inputs. I got it flashed using VMWare Fusion