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

[Teo]

Excuse me? 
The change of status from Confirmed to Opinion is just ridiculous. 
@psusi Could you explain the reasoning behind it?

There have been several users who have confirmed that they (we) had a
perfectly working dual boot system which, after running the distribution
upgrade (saying "yes" to the prompt whether to upgrade), were turned
into unbootable bricks (fortunately reversible through a painful
process). Under which point of view can this not be a bug?

And if your answer is "because your system had been modified by manually reinstalling grub", then please consider that:
1 - that was the only possible way of having a working Ubuntu 13.10 alongside Windows 8 on a modern computer that came with Windows 8 preinstalled. There is no such thing as a clean install of Ubuntu 13.10 on a computer with Windows 8 preinstalled and a UEFI bios, because the installer was broken and was uncapable of installing Ubuntu alongside with Windows 8, so whoever installed Ubuntu was FORCED to use boot repair or something similar to get the dual boot to work. So, that situation HAS to be supported
2 - even if that didn't have to be supported and handled, it HAS TO be detected and the Distirbution Upgrade MUST warn the user that the system is in such a situation that it will be uncapable of upgrading without screwing things up, giving the option whether to continue or abort.

It IS the distribution upgrade's job to check whether the conditions for
performing a safe update are met, no matter what may cause them not to
be met.

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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:
  Opinion

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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