I really need some help here udevhotplugusbusbmount etc etc. 2023

You really do not want to be dowloading stuff from unstable and installing it on stable. Just don't do it, or you will be sorry. Kernels you can sort of get away with, sometimes, if not too much has changed in the boot scripts and initrd and such. But you're better of self compiling if you want a newer kernel on stable.

The permutations here are:

kernel udev works? ----------------------------------------------------------------- stable stable yes unstable stable there are known bugs 1 stable unstable probably not unstable unstable yes

There isn't one, unless backports.org has one or you compile your own.

Stable does not mean "does not crash", although hopefully that is true. What it really means is "will not change out from under you". Stable was last released with 2.6.8 (and some 2.4 kernel which I forget). They don't go updating it to a newer version. The policy is to backport security fixes only.

I thought that was the reason it exists. But as I said, I don't use it.

1 The bugs I know of are related to parsing of custom hotplug rules, which might be related to your usbmount not working.

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