Well, as you might or might not know, Ubuntu is a Debian-based distro implemented with the common user (ie non-geek) in mind. I am a geek but I use it because I really like its desktop integration. Which brings me to my question.
Originally, I would stick in a USB flash drive and it would automount it and pop an icon on the desktop (kind of like a Mac). This continued to work after I recompiled the kernel (so that I could install ndiswrapper and vmware) because I did remember to set the proper variables in the kernel .config to support USB hotplugging. However, the daemon that Ubuntu uses to catch the kernel events (udevd) just recently stopped working, and I don't know what I did. I've tried running it manually and it just dies silently.
Also, if I check dmesg after inserting the flash drive, I can see that usb-storage was actually alerted, the bus was scanned, and the device correctly identified, but then it says "NLS: cant load utf8 charset" and "WARNING: IO charset UTF8 is not recommended for VFAT!" Anyone have any idea how to fix this, or even better, what the hell I broke?
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
I don't know how (or why), but you seem to have nuked your kernel's UTF8 NLS module when or after you compiled it, which is the only thing I can think of that would cause automount to get confused about nls=utf8 and iocharset=utf8 flags. I'd build the thing again if I were you.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :