nvidia-331-uvm 331.89-0ubuntu5: nvidia-331-uvm kernel module failed to build

[Aram Paronikyan]

I was running VMWare Workstation 10.0.2 on my Ubuntu 14.10.
VW warned me about possible problems with my native graphics card 3D functionality and then hanged booting the guest OS.
I had to restart the system after killiing VW from a different terminal and then the system stood stalled with a black screen. I hit the restart button of PC, rebooted normally and then got this error.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: nvidia-331-uvm 331.89-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
DKMSKernelVersion: 3.16.0-24-generic
Date: Thu Oct 30 16:01:01 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-15 (410 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
PackageVersion: 331.89-0ubuntu5
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-331
Title: nvidia-331-uvm 331.89-0ubuntu5: nvidia-331-uvm kernel module failed to build
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1268257, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.