Comment 86 for bug 117314

I'm sorry that people have been continuing to have problems with the -16.29 kernel update. We have not yet been able to reproduce these issues. e.g. a machine local to me using the nvidia binary driver loads without problems. Can you check that your linux-restricted-modules was upgraded along with everything else? To make sure you have the correct linux-meta packages installed, try:

$ dpkg -l linux-$(uname -r | cut -d- -f3-) | grep ^i
$ dpkg -l linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r | cut -d- -f3-) | grep ^i

Ff either of these are blank, the top-level linux-meta packages are missing from your system, which could cause things like linux-restricted-modules to get out of sync with the kernel ABI. If this is the case, try:

$ sudo apt-get install linux-$(uname -r | cut -d- -f3-)
$ sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r | cut -d- -f3-)