Comment 20 for bug 1097462

If I ignore the error when installing nvidia and reboot I instead get the error when modprobing nouveau.

$ modprobe --set-version=3.8.0-5-generic --ignore-install --quiet --show-depends nouveau
modprobe: ../tools/modprobe.c:550: print_action: Assertion `kmod_module_get_initstate(m) == KMOD_MODULE_BUILTIN' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

$ modprobe --set-version=3.8.0-5-generic --ignore-install --quiet --show-depends nvidia
insmod /lib/modules/3.8.0-5-generic/updates/dkms/nvidia_304_updates.ko

So I branched lp:ubuntu/kmod with the purpose of running modprobe in gdb but then I can't reproduce the error. :-/

$ ./tools/modprobe --set-version=3.8.0-5-generic --ignore-install --quiet --show-depends nouveau
insmod /lib/modules/3.8.0-5-generic/kernel/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.ko
insmod /lib/modules/3.8.0-5-generic/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko
insmod /lib/modules/3.8.0-5-generic/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_kms_helper.ko
insmod /lib/modules/3.8.0-5-generic/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm.ko
insmod /lib/modules/3.8.0-5-generic/kernel/drivers/acpi/video.ko
insmod /lib/modules/3.8.0-5-generic/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.ko
insmod /lib/modules/3.8.0-5-generic/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/mxm-wmi.ko
insmod /lib/modules/3.8.0-5-generic/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko

$ ./tools/modprobe --set-version=3.8.0-5-generic --ignore-install --quiet --show-depends nvidia

I expected at least an "insmod /lib/modules/3.8.0-5-generic/updates/dkms/nvidia_304_updates.ko" from probing nvidia with my local build so something else seems broken in this case.

The local build is linked to kmod-nolib.