I had exactly the same problem, and I also tried creating dir "modaliases".
However, I looked around filesystem and found that there's /tmp/tmp1AYBN/modaliases which was probably created by update manager when I first attempted to upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04
I had exactly the same problem, and I also tried creating dir "modaliases".
However, I looked around filesystem and found that there's /tmp/tmp1AYBN/ modaliases which was probably created by update manager when I first attempted to upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04
I copied all the files:
cp /tmp/tmp1AYBN/ modaliases/ * ~/modaliases
And it worked.