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

[Gramler]

Experienced the same issue as Mathias Dietrich describes here.

Of note is the fact that this happen on nearly "stock" instance.

Started as 13.04 server. (booting from unraided drive, config includes 2 drives in raid array)
Installed CouchDB, ElasticSearch, Added ubuntu desktop 
Upgraded via command line to 13.10
Upgraded via desktop tool to 14.04

Recovery path was somewhat different but similar:
Booted from SuperGrub image: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ Into 13.10 image (find the Ubuntu entry via supergrub menu)
Installed Jaunty version of boot-repair (trusty not available yet at time of writing) see:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/449818/boot-repair-ppa-404-error-on-ubuntu-14-04
Boor repair complained about missing "linux" package. I just removed this from apt-get command

That repaired it.

Sorry... i did not see the request for
parted -l, debconf-show grub-pc
 till just now

However, I am confident that if the same sequence is repeated.. the same thing will happen.
Note that NO manual editing changing of boot config was performed.
But 13.04 and 13.10 instances worked just fine.
Also the upgrade form 13.04 - 13.10 went through without any issues.

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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

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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