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

[Phillip Susi]

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On 10/31/2014 02:08 PM, Br. Peter Totleben, O.P. wrote:
> All of the things that you say are the case are in fact not the
> case at all. And all of the things that you say are not the case
> are precisely the case.

Seeing as how there have been hundreds of disjointed complaints in
this thread, that is possible.  This is why I tried to get people to
file their own reports until they could be triaged and truly
identified to be the same, or a different issue, but alas, that didn't
happen so now it's all ajumble.  Of that jumble I did spend some time
trying to carefully look into quite a few before it became clear to me
that they fall into basically the same category, with perhaps three
different subtle variations.

> I installed Ubuntu Gnome 14.10 by deleting all of my old Linux 
> partitions and installing fresh. And I only have one HD. After 
> installing, Grub was broken, with the indicated error.

Then your 14.10 install did not install grub correctly ( i.e. it
failed to install, or installed it to a place your system did not
actually boot from ), leaving the previous grub install you had to try
and fail to boot.

> So, psusi, the problem is with the version of Grub included in
> Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10. You are just making stuff up, and
> dismissing people's problems solely on the basis of your
> fabrications. Either provide constructive help or don't post.

No, I am not "making stuff up".  I understand what causes this
message, and the possible ways that could occur ( in general; perhaps
there are still one or two subtle variations I have not yet identified
), and confirmed these were in fact, the ways that many of the people
posting here arrived there.

The bottom line is that this message happens because you have one
version of grub in your MBR, and a different version in your /boot
directory.  This does not happen when ubiquity installs grub
successfully and to the correct place.  The only way that ubiquity
installs grub successfully but to the wrong place is when you either
explicitly tell it to install to the wrong place, or if you have
multiple disks, in which case it assumes your system boots from sda,
and if this is not the case, then yes, you do need to manually tell it
the correct drive and there just isn't anything we can do about that
other than your manual intervention there ( and then you only get this
error if you previously had installed an older version of grub on the
drive your system actually boots from ).


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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:
  Triaged

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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