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

[Dale Rekow]

I see a lot of activity on this subject and as an end user I am going to
try 13.10 now since 14.04 failed to install on a clean machine. If I
have to go through all the extra trouble to install this version on a
clean machine then what is the point of installing it to begin with. It
has been years since I have used linux and back then my preference was
Red Hat but I wanted to get back into linux again and after reading
several posts Ubuntu was ranked high.

My process:
Installed from a USB drive. I followed the instructions for creating the USB drive directly from the Ubuntu web site.

The installation process was painful. I kept getting an error with
nothing but "?"'s repeated. Finally got the install to work only to
reboot to a black screen which led me here. I can't say for sure if it
is a bug or not but it is a pain to me.

My system: Intel Server Board S2600GZ
RAID array: 2 drives mirrored
Dual Xeon quad core proc.
64 GB RAM

If 13.10 doesn't work I will move to another distro for testing
purposes. I hope this was of some help to someone and if not, my
apologies for wasting space on here.

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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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