nvidia-185-kernel-source_185.18.36-0ubuntu5 not installing correctly, blank screen on reboot

Bug #450865 reported by Ron Houk
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #450493: xorg: failed to load module "nvidia". Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Terminal readout:

The following extra packages will be installed:
  nvidia-glx-185
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  nvidia-173-kernel-source nvidia-glx-173
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nvidia-185-kernel-source nvidia-glx-185
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/19.5MB of archives.
After this operation, 12.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 139608 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing nvidia-glx-173 ...
Removing nvidia-173-kernel-source ...
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-185-kernel-source.
(Reading database ... 139521 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nvidia-185-kernel-source (from .../nvidia-185-kernel-source_185.18.36-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-glx-185.
Unpacking nvidia-glx-185 (from .../nvidia-glx-185_185.18.36-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nvidia-185-kernel-source (185.18.36-0ubuntu5) ...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Directory for kernel not found in /lib/modules
Adding Module to DKMS build system

Error! Invalid number of arguments passed.
Usage: add -m <module> -v <module-version>

Setting up nvidia-glx-185 (185.18.36-0ubuntu5) ...

Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 13 19:31:29 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: Dell Inc. Studio 540
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-185-kernel-source 185.18.36-0ubuntu5
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-13-generic root=UUID=3d698c6b-1391-4773-a50d-57ddc8b33385 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.45-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu3
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu3
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 07/24/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.1.1
dmi.board.name: 0M017G
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: '01'
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.1.1:bd07/24/2009:svnDellInc.:pnStudio540:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0M017G:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvr'01':
dmi.product.name: Studio 540
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.31-13-generic

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Ron Houk (houk-ron) wrote :
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Ron Houk (houk-ron) wrote :

'sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-185-kernel-source' from recovery mode fixed this for me.

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Ron Houk (houk-ron) wrote :

Forgot to put this at the beginning. Sorry.

Upon installing nvidia-185-kernel-source_185.18.36-0ubuntu5 and rebooting X fails to load. Missing nvidia module.

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