When I google "linux device not initializing correctly", someone suggesting "udevadm trigger" is the 5th result
I may also have accidentally made it harder by using the wrong word somewhere. A good part of the difficulty of googling for a vague problem is figuring out how to even word it properly.
Also of course it's much easier now that I tracked down what the actual problem was and can express it better. I'm pretty sure I wasn't googling for "devices not initializing" at the time.
But this is where I think LLMs offer a genuine improvement -- being able to deal with vagueness better. Google works best if you know the right words, and sometimes you don't.
And it might not have been the first and only thing ChatGPT said. It got there fast but 5th result isn't too slow either.