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

[Terry Ellison]

Thanks Phillip,  I'll file my last point as a separate report as you
suggest.  I take it that this should go down as a grub2 issue.

However to your point:

> You only get prompted to reconfigure if the previous configuration
> is broken. That is to say, it says to install to a drive that is no
> longer present. This is because the upgrade scripts know something
> has gone wrong and manual intervention is required. If you get that
> wrong, there's nothing we can do about it.

I can accept that this makes sense as a design intent, and is what the
implementation should do.  But what do you mean by "broken" here.

In my case, I never configured grub in the first place other than
through the initial Ubuntu guided process, and I upgraded Ubuntu
successfully to 13.04 and 13.10 on this system without issue.  So why
was it suddenly "broken" for the 14.04 upgrade?   I have three system
partitions: the original /dev/sda1 as Win7, /dev/sda4 as the Lenovo
diagnostics and /dev/sda5 as my Ubuntu partition.  GRUB was installed on
/dev/sda.  (sda2 is my Win7 user partition and sda6 LVM2).  Pretty
straight forward and unchanged since my initial install.  If I want to
dick around with systems I use VMs.

However, there's no point in debating this further as we've been through
these arguments a few times and are repeating ourselves.  Either the
counts will continue to rack up or they won't.  Thanks for your input
anyway :-)

PS. I know GRUB 1.5 is politically incorrect with GRUB2, but IMO if it
quacks like a duck ... Maybe you should correct the Wikipedia article on
Grub. :-)

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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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