Thread: Troubleshooting Kindle Paperwhite won't remain in USB drive mode when connected to Linux machine
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Old 04-17-2020, 02:10 PM   #4
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dmesg -H please, because I'm way too lazy to parse epoch ts myself .

I'd double check your udev rules, in case something stupid is happening on USB plug and mistakenly matches on the Kindle...

EDIT: Did you also happen to upgrade your kernel? From which version to which version?

There's probably VFAT shenanigans happening on Kindle w/ recent kernels if something's doing nasty things on automount...

c.f., https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1834641 & https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203973
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