Comment 99 for bug 1289977

This affects me, too, and I've been unable to fix the problem.

I tried pureblood's #27 strategy and _tried_ using dpkg-recongifure grub-pc but even doing this with what I think are all my partitions it doesn't work.

I did set it up top dual boot into Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.10. After update to 14.04 machine is now unusable, giving the "symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found" error and going to "grub rescue."

Having no idea what to report or do here, I'll ape what others did:

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Output from debconf-show grub-pc:
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debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline:
  grub2/linux_cmdline:
  grub-pc/install_devices_failed: false
  grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true
  grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet splash
  grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet splash
  grub-pc/hidden_timeout: true
  grub-pc/install_devices:
  grub-pc/partition_description:
  grub2/device_map_regenerated:
  grub-pc/kopt_extracted: false
  grub-pc/disk_description:
  grub-pc/install_devices_empty: false
  grub-pc/timeout: 10
  grub-pc/install_devices_failed_upgrade: true
  grub-pc/install_devices_disks_changed:
  grub-pc/mixed_legacy_and_grub2: true

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Output from sudo parted -l:
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Model: ATA ST2000DM001-9YN1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
 1 1049kB 420MB 419MB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, diag
 2 420MB 735MB 315MB fat32 EFI system partition boot
 3 735MB 869MB 134MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
 4 869MB 716GB 715GB ntfs Basic data partition
 5 716GB 1970GB 1254GB ext4
 6 1970GB 2000GB 30.1GB linux-swap(v1)

Model: JetFlash Transcend 64GB (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdg: 63.2GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
 1 1049kB 63.2GB 63.2GB primary fat32

Model: Flash Drive AL_USB20 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdh: 129MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
 1 49.7kB 129MB 129MB primary fat16

Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sr0
has been opened read-only.
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!

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I am just an ordinary user who'd hoped the "Linux for Human Beings" could be used by a normal one, but maybe I was wrong.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.