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

[Teo]

> I haven't seen anyone report this on a fresh install. It is always
after an upgrade,

That's untrue and you know it.
There are a few comments on this very page reporting the issue on fresh install. And you did see them; I seem to remember you said you just don't believe them (I'm too lazy to look for it now), but that's a different thing.

Anyway, as already discussed, there is clearly some bug, whether it is
in Grub or in Ubuntu, if a perfectly working dual boot (whether it was a
"fresh install" or it was "tinkered" because that is the _only_ way to
get a dual boot with windows  8 to run, as the official installer and
all the officially documented methods fail to produce a working dual
boot installation) gets bricked by a distupgrade without warning. The
maintainer of the Ubuntu package himself agreed to that.

By the way, talking about @cjwatson, I'm still wating for an answer to
whether or not those of us who were bitten by the bug and and fixed the
broken boot can safely install the updates that have since been
released, and whether the upgrade to 14.10 will bite us again.

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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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