Comment 255 for bug 1289977
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| Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote Re: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found" | #255 |
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On 10/28/2014 09:34 PM, Teo wrote:
> 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.
No, as already discussed, there is a broken installation of grub. The reason Colin reopened this report is because he wants to put in some checks at some point to detect that it's broken and guide you through fixing it.
> 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.
If you fixed it correctly so the package system knows where it needs to reinstall it in the future, then you won't have the problem again. If you fixed it by manually reinstalling grub outside the package system again, then you will face the problem again.
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