[Bug 1322890] Re: CRITICAL: 13.10->14.04 upgrade BREAKS GRUP, renders computer UNBOOTABLE

[Saikrishna Arcot]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1289977 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1289977
   Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"

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Title:
  CRITICAL: 13.10->14.04 upgrade BREAKS GRUP, renders computer
  UNBOOTABLE

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

Bug description:
  Great!
  I decided to finally upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04, and after the whole upgrade process and the restart, the computer won't boot!!

  I get a black screen with this error instead of the familiar boot
  menu:

    error: symbol `grub_term_highlight_color' not found 
    grub rescue> _

  Not only can't I boot ubuntu, I can't boot any other OS I had installed on the computer (namely Windows 8).
  I am reporting this from another computer.
  How do I fix it now?

  Do you test distribution upgrades before releasing them? Well,
  obviously not enough. And _after_ releasing them, because it's been a
  f***ing month or two since it was released.

  
  At EVERY SINGLE UPGRADE I always get some huge problem that renders my system completely unusable and needs some pretty radical fix. But this is the most f***ed up and low level one ever. At the next upgrade I guess I'll get hardware damage.
   
  During the upgrade there was some crash: the "system problem detected" (or whatever it is called) window popped up, informing of some crash related to VirtualBox (and uslessly offering me the option to report it, just to later tell me it couldn't be reported, as usual with third-party packages). I don't know if that is related and I know that's a third party package, however distribution-upgrade must be rocksolid and it can't brick a whole system just because of a broken package (even assuming that's broken). It must either fix the problem with the package, or offer the option to remove it, or roll back the whole upgrade if it cannot be complete 100% safely.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.192.13
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-31.46-generic 3.8.13.8
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-31-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.4
  Architecture: i386
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  Date: Sat May 24 19:48:05 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-06-23 (1431 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: dist-upgrade
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-08-10 (287 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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