[Bug 1533258] Re: Selecting grub entries (efi) at boot time leads to "error: symbol 'grub_efi_find_last_device_path' not found"

[Michael Frericks]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1366546 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1366546

How can this be a duplicate of the  2 years old  bug #1366546?

This one here occured  recently (~ January 2016)

The preveios version of grub2-common_2.02 - i my case
grub2-common_2.02-beta2-9ubuntu1.6_amd64.deb - works fine.

The questions is: What has changed from

     grub2-common_2.02-beta2-9ubuntu1.6_amd64.deb

to

    grub2-common_2.02-beta2-9ubuntu1.7_amd64.de

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Title:
  Selecting grub entries (efi) at boot time leads to "error: symbol
  'grub_efi_find_last_device_path' not found"

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  1. Situation

  1.1 I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on an OEM "Windows 8.1" laptop more than a year ago
  1.2 Ubuntu installed grub to manage OS selection
  1.2 The last automatic software update of Ubuntu (09.01.2016) updated grub (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7)
  1.3 Since then selecting grub menu items to start windows produces the following error message

      "symbol 'grub_efi_find_last_device_path' not found"

  1.4 Reverting back to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.6 solves this issue
  1.5 Retrying to upgrade from 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.6  to 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7 reintrocudes the issue

  2. References

  2.1 Output of

   dpkg --list | grep grub

  is

  ii  grub-common            2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7   amd64   GRand Unified Bootloader (common files)
  ii  grub-efi                        2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7   amd64   GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (dummy package)
  ii  grub-efi-amd64         2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7   amd64   GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI-AMD64 version)
  ii  grub-efi-amd64-bin  2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7   amd64   GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI-AMD64 binaries)
  ii  grub2-common          2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7   amd64   GRand Unified Bootloader (common files for version 2)

  2.2 Extract of /var/log/apt/term.log

  Log started: 2016-01-09  13:13:08
  (Reading database ...
  ...
  (Reading database ... 100%
  (Reading database ... 1300498 files and directories currently installed.)
  ...
  Preparing to unpack .../grub-efi_2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking grub-efi (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7) over (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.6) ...
  Preparing to unpack .../grub-efi-amd64_2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking grub-efi-amd64 (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7) over (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.6) ...
  Preparing to unpack .../grub-efi-amd64-bin_2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking grub-efi-amd64-bin (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7) over (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.6) ...
  Preparing to unpack .../grub2-common_2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking grub2-common (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7) over (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.6) ...
  Preparing to unpack .../grub-common_2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking grub-common (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7) over (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.6) ...
  ...
  Setting up grub-common (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7) ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/00_header ...
  Setting up grub2-common (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7) ...
  Setting up grub-efi-amd64-bin (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7) ...
  Setting up grub-efi-amd64 (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7) ...
  Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
  installation beendet. Keine Fehler aufgetreten.
  Grub-Konfigurationsdatei wird generiert …
  Linux-Abbild gefunden: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-57-generic
  initrd-Abbild gefunden: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-57-generic
  ...
  Linux-Abbild gefunden: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-40-generic
  initrd-Abbild gefunden: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-40-generic
  Windows Boot Manager auf /dev/sda2@/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi gefunden
  Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration
  erledigt
  Setting up grub-efi (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7) ...
  Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ...
  Log ended: 2016-01-09  13:13:25

  2.3 Output of

  find  /boot/efi -ls | grep x64.efi

  is

      14 1324 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      1355736 Nov  2  2014 /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/shimx64.efi
      15  120 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       119296 Jan  9 13:13 /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
     350    0 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root            0 Nov  2  2014 /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootx64.efi.grb
     351  120 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       119296 Nov  2  2014 /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootx64.efi
     358 1580 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      1617240 Jun 14  2014 /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bkpbootx64.efi
     359  120 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       119296 Nov  2  2014 /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi

  2.4 Reverting to grub 2.02-beta2-9ubuntu1.6_amd64

  Steps:

  1. Download the following files in a separate (newly created) folder

  grub2-common_2.02-beta2-9ubuntu1.6_amd64.deb
  grub-common_2.02-beta2-9ubuntu1.6_amd64.deb
  grub-efi-amd64_2.02-beta2-9ubuntu1.6_amd64.deb
  grub-efi-amd64-bin_2.02-beta2-9ubuntu1.6_amd64.deb
  grub-efi_2.02-beta2-9ubuntu1.6_amd64.deb

  2. From that folder install the deb files with the following command:

  sudo dpkg -i *.deb

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