[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"

[Mathias Dietrich]

@Philip: Why the heck do you try to close a non solved reproducable bug that is critical? You should be lucky that I reported it BEFORE the release date of Ubuntu, when I tried the Beta. Instead of looking into it, you tried to close it with all means. Thanks to this all other users were affected by the bug too and the one's here are just a small percentage, which are power users.
It's no wonder that Ubuntu has such a bad reputation, if such critical bugs are ignored.
As I said before this bug was triggered by updating Ubuntu via the standard update UI (update-manager). So why exactly is that a wrong installation ?

For all others who are interested in working around the bug, you can boot into your Ubuntu using Super Grub Disk.
Then reinstall grub on your boot partition, e.g.: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows#The_terminal_way

It seems that this bug is caused by having > 1 HDDs where some
partitions are on the one and some on the other HDDs.

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Title:
  Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol
  'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The update from 13.10 to 14.04 via update-manager broke grub for me,
  which resulted in the grub error:

  "symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"

  on startup.

  To fix the problem I had to boot to my persisting Ubuntu installation
  (e.g. using Super Grub Disk) and had to reinstall grub on my boot
  partition: "sudo grub-install --recheck /dev/sdx"

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: grub2-common 2.02~beta2-6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-16.36-generic 3.13.5
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-16-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sun Mar  9 10:36:45 2014
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-10 (88 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-07 (2 days ago)

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