GNU bug report logs - #18523
Module auto-loading in standalone guix

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>

Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:50:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 18525, 18571

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: guix-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: Module auto-loading in standalone guix
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:05:46 -0400

While playing with standalone Guix, I found that I was unable to mount a
FAT-formatted USB drive.  The kernel generated the following error message:

  FAT-fs (sdb1): IO charset iso8859-1 not found

Loading the nls_iso8859_1 kernel module fixes the problem.

Isn't there normally some mechanism for automatically loading such
modules?  On my extremely simple home-built YeeLoong system, based on
Cross [GNU/]Linux From Scratch, and using a recent linux-libre 3.14.13
kernel that also makes nls_iso8859_1 a module, somehow the module is
loaded automatically.

I confess I'm rather ignorant of how this is supposed to work on modern
systems, but I vaguely recall that this is udev's job.  Is that right?

     Regards,
       Mark
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