/usr/sbin/dkms: line 193: syntax error near unexpected token `<'

[Jens Elkner]

bash-4.3$ + dpkg --configure nvidia-367
Setting up nvidia-367 (367.57-0ubuntu3) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
INFO:Enable nvidia-367
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude
Loading new nvidia-367-367.57 DKMS files...
/usr/sbin/dkms: line 193: syntax error near unexpected token `<'
/usr/sbin/dkms: line 193: ` done < <(module_status_built "$module" "$module_version")'
dpkg: error processing package nvidia-367 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-3ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.125ubuntu5) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-9136-generic
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nvidia-367

bash-4.3$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.10
Release: 16.10
Codename: yakkety

This bug prevents the successful installation of recent nvidia cuda toolkit packages (i.e. 8.x) and thus recent technology like Pascal architecture based hardware cannot be used on Ubuntu.

[Jens Elkner (jelmd)]

Not sure, why launchpad shows 'Affects: unity' - I definitely selected package 'dkms' ...