Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
grub2 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
High
|
Unassigned |
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_
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
ProcVersionSign
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_
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub2
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-07 (2 days ago)
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → Confirmed |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Critical → High |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → Confirmed |
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
no longer affects: | ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → Confirmed |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → Confirmed |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → Confirmed |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → Confirmed |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
affects: | ubuntu-release-upgrader → ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
no longer affects: | ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Opinion |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Opinion → Confirmed |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Won't Fix → Triaged |
It happened to me as well.
I have a Quantal liveUSB at hand and booted from it. I ran the grub-install from it and fixed the boot.
Now when I boot the grub version shows as 2.00. When I can boot to Trusty I ran grub-install again in hope of making the grub version current and I hit this error again.
So it appears there's a bug in the current 2.02 beta version.