depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file

[jean-christophe manciot]

Ubuntu 20.04
linux Ubuntu 5.4.0-14.17-generic 5.4.18
linux-modules-5.4.0-15-generic 5.4.0-15.18

Upgrading from 5.4.0-14.17 to 5.4.0-15.18 leads to a large number of repeated error messages:
depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/5.4.0-15-generic/modules.builtin.bin'

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[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

I have a similar problem (more than 4.000 repeated error messages)
depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/5.6.0-050600rc4-generic/modules.builtin.bin'
installing kernel 5.6.0-050600rc4-generic downloaded from https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.6-rc4/

[jean-christophe manciot (manciot-jeanchristophe)]

Same issue when upgrading to linux-modules-5.4.0-17-generic 5.4.0.17.20.

[Doug Smythies (dsmythies)]

I think bug 1864992 and this one are duplicates.

[Mauro Miatello (mauro-miatello)]

same here upgrading from 5.4.0-14.17 to 5.4.0-25.29