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

[msth67]

I can't believe that anyone may chalk this up to a supposedly "incorrect
setup":as many others have reported,I've just done a clean install
(Lubuntu Trusty) from CD to a new hard drive,the installation process
finished normally and then the system could not be booted,period.

After fiddling with grub commands and managing to boot the system only
to confirm that once booted there were no issues and the problem was the
boot process in itself,I've resorted to a separate boot partition as
advised in many threads,which  only partially solves the issue:the
system can now boot,yet it still spits out error messages in the
process,and furthermore can't be rebooted,it has to be shut down and
then restarted.

I've installed several Debian and Debian-based distros so far (including
earlier Ubuntu releases) on not-standard multi-boot setups,reinstalled
Grub after recovering some partition,and not once run into this issue:I
can't see how reinstalling/reconfiguring Grub,resorting to command line
methods or having to otherwise repair Grub may be part of a normal
installation process.

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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:
  Triaged

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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