[uninth]

I had the same problem, and traced kudzu with strace to see where it failed.

The following should work, but may not be the correct procedure.

First boot, ignore error(s), go to expert mode and execute

mv /etc/sysconfig/hwconf /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.old

/usr/sbin/kudzu -p > /etc/sysconfig/hwconf

Then reboot. The problem should be gone by now. You may also like to check the contents of /etc/modules.conf but I don't think that is your problem.