I’m seeing the following message on the DGX Spark Dashboard: System Updates: Update your device now to improve performance and stability The issue is that this notification appears almost daily. After I apply the update, the message disappears—but then returns the next day prompting another upda…

it’s also worthy to notice this, which could cause some weirdness: [image] Broken apt update? DGX Spark / GB10 Projects This is a known issue, there are details and a workaround posted here:

Many of the updates are coming from Ubuntu themselves. you can see the list if you SSH into the machine by running apt upgrade apt list --upgradeable on my system right now, I see: spark-bcc2:~# apt list --upgradable Listing... Done bsdextrautils/noble-updates 2.39.3-9ubuntu6.4 arm64 [upgrada…

If you check for upgrades from the command line some of the available packages are deferred and this might trigger the dashboard to show there are updates. These are the updates available on my Sparks as of 12/16/2025: The following upgrades have been deferred due to phasing: gnome-settings-daem…

I have disabled phased updates in my machines like this: root@spark:~# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-Phased-Updates Update-Manager::Always-Include-Phased-Updates "true"; APT::Get::Always-Include-Phased-Updates "true"; I’m not sure if this is best practice.

The dashboard should ideally just show the CUDA level updates and not all the ubuntu nonsense.

Or show both but specify which level they are

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christopher_owen December 16, 2025, 8:00pm 5

it’s also worthy to notice this, which could cause some weirdness:

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