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

[braoult]

@psusi. You can add +1 to people having this issue. Don't say "1 million people have no problem",
if you don't speak about 14.04. Also, the 89 number is from prople who were able to boot.

My system is fresh 13.04, upgraded to 13.10, and 14.04.

I did not touch grub, and I was lucky enough to have a second computer (Apple) where I could
burn a boot-repair. What about others who just cannot, such as your mom? Silent, so no issue reported?

And no, I don't have dual boot. And yes I have 2 hard drives, but never
booted from the second one.

This is a serious bug, really. My computer would have been stoned without the Mac to help.
Another distro could be better, of course, if change management (especially testing) is correctly done.

I would add:  "Also, once again, it can't be validated in an automatic way" is a nonsence. A booting drive
(unique) can be validated. If the script is not sure, asking a question would not hurt.

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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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