Comment 8 for bug 1070647

As far as I can tell modem-manager keeps getting respawned (pid changes) on my machine (always as a child of init, pid 1).

I tried to:
1) service modem-manager stop
2) kill the process with killall
3) comment the start line in /etc/init/modemmanager.conf and reboot

Whatever I did there was always a /usr/sbin/modem-manager running... upstart bug?

Purging the package from the system did improve the shutdown time noticeably.