Comment 15 for bug 1073062

Desember 11th 2012

For your information only.
I was affected by this error
after the daily fresh upgrade of Ubuntu 13.04 by using the commands
sudo apt-get update;sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

The error is gone after reinstalling the two initramfs-tools packages, as
the following command output will show.

=================
sudo update-initramfs -u
[sudo] password for cbe:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.7.0-5-generic
modprobe: ../tools/modprobe.c:550: print_action: Assertion `kmod_module_get_initstate(m) == KMOD_MODULE_BUILTIN' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

cbe@B9Lap:~$ sudo dpkg -l initram*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==================-==============-==============-=========================================
ii initramfs-tools 0.103ubuntu0.4 all tools for generating an initramfs
ii initramfs-tools-bi 0.103ubuntu0.4 amd64 binaries used by initramfs-tools
cbe@B9Lap:~$

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install --reinstall initramfs-tools

update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.7.0-5-generic
modprobe: ../tools/modprobe.c:550: print_action: Assertion `kmod_module_get_initstate(m) == KMOD_MODULE_BUILTIN' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
cbe@B9Lap:~$

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install --reinstall initramfs-tools-bin

Preparing to replace initramfs-tools-bin 0.103ubuntu0.4 (using .../initramfs-tools-bin_0.103ubuntu0.4_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement initramfs-tools-bin ...
Setting up initramfs-tools-bin (0.103ubuntu0.4) ...
cbe@B9Lap:~$
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
cbe@B9Lap:~$

So now everything works ok.
Thanks for your time.

Christian.