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

[Br. Peter Totleben, O.P.]

@psusi,

You seem to not be listening to people.

All of the things that you say are the case are in fact not the case at
all. And all of the things that you say are not the case are precisely
the case.

I installed Ubuntu Gnome 14.10 by deleting all of my old Linux
partitions and installing fresh. And I only have one HD. After
installing, Grub was broken, with the indicated error.

After a little digging, I realized that "grub_term_highlight_color" was
a symbol internal to Grub. It was being used in several Grub module
files.

Then, I noticed that both Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 include the 2.02beta
version of Grub. I wondered why the Ubuntu people were packaging
releases (and LTS releases even!) with beta versions of the bootloader.

So, I downgraded to Grub 2.00 and everything worked perfectly fine for
me. The module files for Grub 2.00 do not (AFAIK) include the undefined
symbol "grub_term_highlight_color"

So, psusi, the problem is with the version of Grub included in Ubuntu
14.04 and 14.10. You are just making stuff up, and dismissing people's
problems solely on the basis of your fabrications. Either provide
constructive help or don't post.

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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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