Comment 2 for bug 414780

I'll give this a go:

When upgrading from Jaunty to Karmic, I get a similar error -

Setting up nouveau-kernel-source (0.0.15+git20090823-0ubuntu1) ...
Adding Module to DKMS build system
ol ...
Doing initial module build
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.28-16-generic (x86_64)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/nouveau/0.0.15+git20090823/build/ for more information.
dpkg: error processing nouveau-kernel-source (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xserver-xorg-video-nouveau:
 xserver-xorg-video-nouveau depends on nouveau-kernel-source (>= 0.0.15); however:
  Package nouveau-kernel-source is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

My /var/log/dist-upgrade/term.log is rather large, but attached (with the other files from dist-upgrade