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

[Fengyang Wang]

Also experiencing this bug. Machine is a dual boot system Ubuntu &
Windows 8. Never ran grub-install until trying to fix this issue, so it
must have nothing to do with manually fiddling with settings.

Things that did not work:
* sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-efi
* sudo grub-install /dev/sda2 && sudo grub-install /dev/sda6, then sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-efi
* sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

parted -l output:

<code>
Model: ATA HGST HTS541010A9 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  420MB   419MB   ntfs            Basic data partition          hidden, diag
 2      420MB   693MB   273MB   fat32           EFI system partition          boot
 3      693MB   827MB   134MB                   Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 4      827MB   491GB   490GB   ntfs            Basic data partition          msftdata
 6      491GB   966GB   476GB   ext4                                          msftdata
 7      966GB   975GB   8476MB  linux-swap(v1)
 5      975GB   1000GB  25.6GB  ntfs            Basic data partition          hidden, msftdata
</code>

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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:
  Confirmed
Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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