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

[Teo]

@psusi
> No, as already discussed, there is a broken installation of grub. The reason Colin reopened this report is because he wants to put in some checks at some point to detect that it's broken and guide you through fixing it.

You start with "No,", but you confirm what I said. Note I didn't say the
bug is in grub itself; I have no idea whether it's in grub or in Ubuntu
or in Ubuntu's packaging of grub, but something is broken if this
situation happens in the first place.

> there is a broken installation of grub
If there is a broken installation, something is broken.
A few users got that "broken installation" after a fresh install, so some piece of software responsible for installing it didn't do its job correctly.
I (and others) got that "broken installation" after having to manually touch things because the Ubuntu installer just hadn't been capable of installing the system. I didn't tinker with things because I wanted to, I was forced to because the Ubuntu installer doesn't do its job and the docs don't offer any instructions that work, so I had to try things. If I happened to touch something wrong, it was because I was forced to touch things that I shouldn't even have had to touch.

> Colin reopened this report is because he wants to put in some checks
at some point to detect that it's broken and guide you through fixing
it.

Which is what must be done to fix this issue. A robust OS (like any
robust piece of software) cheks things and warns you if it's going to
break.

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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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