And what you did all seems to have worked so good stuff. The point of putting udev on hold though is to stop it from ever being an issue again (hopefully) as it will be held at the current version (and not update). The downside is that if a security issue occurs with udev, it will not get updated then either. I'm hoping that that is unlikely... (which is probably a poor atitude!)

AFAIK you can put hold on packages from within aptitude too (rather than using dpkg) but as I don't use it I'm not sure how to. I'm sure google knows! :)

PS Remember that there is no such thing as stupid questions, just stupid people! :P No just joking! I think if you go back through these forums to when I first started using TKL you will find me saying lots of stupid things and asking silly questions - so it's all good. I'm always happy to help out as much as possible, especially when people have made at least some effort to have a go and aren't asking for unreasonable levels of hand-holding. Besides, I think for every question that gets asked there's probably at least a dozen people wondering the same thing...