[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 10/27/2014 11:52 PM, Br. Peter Totleben, O.P. wrote:
> The problem here is actually a bug that is internal to grub itself,
> and not to Ubuntu, per se. The problem is that Ubuntu Trusty
> (14.04) and Ubuntu Utopic (14.10) both include buggy versions of
> Grub. This is because the Ubuntu people decided to include beta
> versions of Grub 2.02 in both Trusty and Saucy. (Why this was done,
> especially for an LTS release is not quite something that I
> understand).

No, it is not.  The problem here is that people tinker with their
system to get a grub installation that works, yet is broken.  Since it
"works", they don't notice it is broken until they upgrade, at which
time, the upgrade updates one part of grub, and not the other, leading
to the error.  There is nothing wrong with grub itself; it is entirely
in how it is installed and upgraded.


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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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