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

[Saurabh Rindani]

I upgraded from 13.04 (via 13.10) to 14.04, and found this problem, and
I need help to straighten it.

I get the grub rescue prompt with the error " symbol `grub-term-
highlight-color' not found".

I managed to get the boot options after  loading the kernel from the
grub rescue prompt (though it did show some errors), and could boot into
linux.

After that, I am unable to reboot correctly, except by a series of
commands at the grub rescue prompt.

I found that I did not have the package grub-pc. I installed it however,
and tried dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc. However, that has not helped.

I tried to install boot-repair, but I get the following message:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair'.
Please check that the PPA name or format is correct.

What I found, however, was that I have efi boot on the Windows
partition.

I need help to set things right, so that I can reboot without problem.
Here are the outputs of blkid, df and debconf-show :

sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="WINRE_DRV" UUID="A8066BD9066BA6D2" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda2: LABEL="SYSTEM_DRV" UUID="546D-3E71" TYPE="vfat" 
/dev/sda3: LABEL="LRS_ESP" UUID="546E-285B" TYPE="vfat" 
/dev/sda5: LABEL="Windows8_OS" UUID="B8146FC1146F816C" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda6: LABEL="Data" UUID="401E71E21E71D180" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda7: LABEL="PBR_DRV" UUID="8A3269613269536D" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda8: UUID="b0766ae7-bc15-491d-b889-2c733ca06908" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda9: UUID="b23dfdca-788a-4605-8a69-c1a25829f938" TYPE="swap" 


df
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8      623487480 44357252 547435844   8% /
none                   4        0         4   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev             4054856       12   4054844   1% /dev
tmpfs             813120     1196    811924   1% /run
none                5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
none             4065600      152   4065448   1% /run/shm
none              102400       44    102356   1% /run/user
/dev/sda2         262144    28564    233580  11% /boot/efi

sudo debconf-show grub-efi

(no output)

sudo debconf-show grub-pc
  grub-pc/disk_description:
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet splash
  grub-pc/mixed_legacy_and_grub2: true
* grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet splash
  grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true
  grub2/device_map_regenerated:
* grub-pc/install_devices:
  grub-pc/install_devices_failed: false
* grub2/linux_cmdline:
  grub-pc/hidden_timeout: false
* grub-pc/install_devices_empty: true
  grub-pc/kopt_extracted: false
  grub-pc/install_devices_disks_changed:
  grub-pc/partition_description:
  grub-pc/install_devices_failed_upgrade: true
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline:
  grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false
  grub-pc/timeout: 10


Any suggestions for correcting the system?

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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:
  Incomplete

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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