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

[Saurabh Rindani]

@Phillip, Windows was certainly loaded first (if I remember right,
Windows 8 came pre-loaded on this touch-screen Lenovo Ideacentre all-in-
one desktop). I did not use grub-cusomizer. However, what I do know is
that when first attempts at loading Ubuntu 12.4 LTS and Fedora failed
because they did not support the hardware on my machine, I installed
Ubuntu 13.4 in July 2013. At that time, while I got the grub boot menu
with Windows and LInux both listed, I could not boot any of them -- the
system was just frozen. If I remember right, I booted using the live-CD
and ran boot-repair, and that point onwards, everything worked fine. I
then upgraded to 13.10 without any problem. There is a directory:

/var/log/boot-sav/log/2013-07-22__11h25boot-repair43

which contains files

boot-repair.log   RESULTS.txt  sda1  sda3  sda6  sda8
boot-repair.logb  sda          sda2  sda5  sda7

(of course, sd* are directories).

If it helps, I can list one or more of these files.

That of course is history. But I hope it helps to know how to repair
what is broken. Thanks for your efforts.

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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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