Comment 5 for bug 292606

I have the same problem and I came to same conclusion that it was nvidia-common ... upon trying to figure out what package it came from... it comes from "nvidia-common" (quite simple).

The weird thing is I didn't have that package installed.. so I installed it (and it also flagged other modaliases for different nvidia driver versions) ... then removed nvidia-common and the modaliases for the versions I didn't need (I must use 173.x as I have legacy nvidia hardware).

That should remove the nvidia-common script in /etc/kernel/postinst.d (could also remove it manually or what I did early on to work-around: "chmod -x nvidia-common" to disable it from running).

Make sure you have nvidia-common package installed (--reinstalled) if you need it or removed properly if not using it.

That seems to fix it for me. I suspect there is an issue with properly installed/removing that package. If you are still having problems and you reinstalled the package... try removing execute permissions from that script before installing your custom kernel via the .deb method!

--Doug