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

[SatPhil]

Hi Ubuntu Technical Board,

There is a lot of dissatisfaction about a problem that causes updates to
Ubuntu 14.04 to fail to boot.  Phillip Susi of Ubuntu feels this is not
a bug whereas everyone who runs into feels that it is.  We suspect it
may affect many more users and be very detrimental to Ubuntu's reputation.

Can we escalate this to you for your review? If you could publish your
findings on the launchpad bug thread, it would inform the affected
community and be much appreciated.

Many thanks

Phil Diacono


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in
"error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 20:56:47 -0000
From: Phillip Susi <psusi at ubuntu.com>
Reply-To: Bug 1289977 <1289977 at bugs.launchpad.net>
To: satphil at gmail.com

The bug is in your configuration.  As a developer, I have said there is
nothing we can do on our end to mitigate this.  As a user you need to
avoid using grub-repair to get into an unsupported configuration.  At
this point your recourse is to take it up with the technical board.


** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

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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:
  Won't Fix

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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