I occasionally see the same on Thinkpad X220 too. You don't need to shut down the machine in that case, pressing Ctrl-C is sufficient to interrupt udev and continue to boot. And I see the same messages about killing stuck modprobe, will confirm next time it happens. Best regards, -- Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC