[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"
This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"
This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"
@Teo1978, you are using an EFI booting machine, so don't have grub-pc and the dpkg-reconfigure does not apply to you. IIRC, the problem on EFI is that if you have used grub-repair or whatever it was called, it makes a copy grubx64.efi and configures the firmware to boot that instead of the original, then when grub is upgraded, the copy is now stale. You can see which file your system is set to boot with sudo efibootmgr -v, and iirc, the copy was named /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/Bootx64.efi, and the original is /boot/efi/EFI/Ubuntu/grubx64.efi. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I want to try and run dpkg-reconfigure as suggested many times, so that I can finally install grub updates and also upgrade the distribution, without fear to brick my computer again due to this bug. Because it's clear that if I'm going to wait for the bug to be fixed it's going to be forever. Now, first of all, @psusi et al talked about running dpkg reconfigure grub-pc, but I don't seem to have grub-pc installed at all. $ apt --installed list |grep grub grub-common/trusty,now 2.02~beta2-9 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3] grub-efi-amd64/trusty,now 2.02~beta2-9 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3] grub-efi-amd64-bin/trusty,now 2.02~beta2-9 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3] grub-efi-amd64-signed/trusty,now 1.34+2.02~beta2-9 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1.34.4+2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3] grub2-common/trusty,now 2.02~beta2-9 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.3] So what is the exact package name against which I should run dpkg- reconfigure? Second. I'm trying to figure out where the good (updated) copy of grub is installed, and where the bad (outdated) one is, because, if I understand correctly, I need to tell dpkg-reconfigure the place where the good one is (or both, as Psusi suggests would be harmless) I have figured out that /dev/sda9 is mounted as root filesystem. Am I right in assuming that /boot is a real, physical folder of that partiton? There I've found a file /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/grub.efi, which contains the string grub_term_highlight_color So, I guess that's the bad version of grub. I seem to have only one physical harddisk /dev/sda. So, is this correct: the bad copy of grub is installed on /dev/sda9, hence (??) the good one is almost certainly in the MBR? Does that mean that when prompted by dpkg-reconfigure, I should choose /dev/sda? (does that mean the MBR of that disk)? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
@cjwatson a year has passed since you said you had some idea about how to fix this. Any progress on that? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
And finally it never asked me for the installation disk -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Running sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-efi-amd64 this is the first question I get and I am already lost │ The following Linux command line was extracted from /etc/default/grub or │ │ the `kopt' parameter in GRUB Legacy's menu.lst. Please verify that it is │ │ correct, and modify it if necessary. The command line is allowed to be│ │ empty.│ │ │ │ Linux command line: │ │ │ │ Ok │ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Same Problem here My workarounf was to enter the startup mode by pressing F12 (Dell Inspirion) and boot from there. If not, I would see the error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color message from grub-rescue. After a next update, instead of grub-rescue, I could only hear annoying beep sounds, occurring every 2 seconds (lasting for infinite time). I still was able to use the EFI-BIOS boot options to restart. However, after my latest update, even the F12 Option to enter EFI Bios has been lost. All I got where the Beep's. After several tries (pressing the on / of button several times, until F12 is displayed) , I may reach the boot menu. I tried to redo the boot order with efibootmgr --- no success. After the next startup, the boot order has been overwritten. I tried Boot-repair --- no success. Any idea what to do next? Thank you in advance, Gerald -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Sorry, I forgot to mention: I am on an UEFI System.
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sudo efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0006
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0006,,2001
Boot* Ubuntu
HD(2,800,fa000,7f78ccae-b336-4d04-8c9f-ef1151bf4bb0)File(\EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi)RC
Boot0001* UEFI Onboard LAN IPv4
ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(1c,0)PCI(0,0)MAC(74867a16a862,0)IPv4(0.0.0.0:0-0.0.0.0:0,0,
0RC
Boot0002* UEFI Onboard LAN IPv6
ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(1c,0)PCI(0,0)MAC(74867a16a862,0)030d3c40RC
Boot0003* UEFI DVD1 PATH1 (HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GT80N)
ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(1f,2)03120a000200CD-ROM(1,44,1680)RC
Boot0006* Windows Boot Manager
HD(2,800,fa000,7f78ccae-b336-4d04-8c9f-ef1151bf4bb0)File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)WINDOWS.x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}...8....
Boot2001* EFI USB DeviceRC
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change bootorder:
sudo efibootmgr -o ,2001,0006,0001,0002
== after reboot, changed to old bootorder...
ls /boot/efi/EFI
Boot Dell Microsoft ubuntu
After boot-repair most of my grubx64.efi files are up to date:
I could find grubx64.efi files in:
/boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu /grubx64.efi --- date = up to date
/boot/efi/EFI/Boot/grubx64.efi: --- date = up to date
/boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot --- date = up to date
/boot/efi/EFI/Dell/Boot/grubx64.efi: --- date = Jul 25 2012 = 3 years old
version
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Tx,
Gerald
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[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I've encountered the same problem. Is this an issue that won't be fixed? I thought I had a pretty normal setup. Dual boot windows 7 and Ubuntu. Installed Windows first, then Ubuntu, used all default/recommended settings. Now left with a totally trashed bootloader for both OSes, and wasted best part of a day trying to fix it. Now resorting to reinstalling both OS. In future, a bright red warning, something along the lines of Updating Grub may render your computer unbootable would be handy, so its clear that unticking the Grub package upgrade might be a good idea. Since I'm now reinstalling my entire system, what is a normal setup? Ie what setup will survive future Grub updates? Baring in mind I'm dual booting with windows, both on same HD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Stanislav German-Evtushenko (giner): Actually, DO NOT DO #4, instead do (as suggested above): # dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc Choose sda to match your list above (or others or all drives if you want grub everywhere). This way it's safe(r) in case of future updates. This will invoke the command grub-install /dev/sda automatically then and every time needed. The problem seems to be that this was not stored in config back in the day. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
This is a bug and easily reproducible: 1. Install Ubuntu 10.04 server 2. Upgrade to 12.04 server (reboot is okay) 3. Upgrade to 14.04 server (reboot fails with grub error) We've had this issue for all systems which was upgraded from 10.04. Here is a work around which worked for us: 1. Install Ubuntu 10.04 server 2. Upgrade to 12.04 server (reboot is okay) 3. Upgrade to 14.04 server (do not reboot ! ) 4. grub-install /dev/sda (reboot is okay) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
dpkg-reconfigure asks you which drive or drives you want grub to be installed to ( and reinstalled to during future upgrades ). If you only have one drive then the choice is simple. If you have more than one, then generally sda is the one your system boots from, but if you have reconfigured your bios to boot from another drive, then that is the drive you should use. If in doubt, it doesn't hurt anything to just install it to all of your drives. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
So, I'm getting tired of always unchecking Grub from automatic updates just to be sure that my system won't break again at the next reboot, and I would also like to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.10, which I have been delaying so far for the same reason (and then, 15.04 must be almost out). As a remainder: I was one of the people whose working dual boot system was screwed up when upgrading from 13.10 to 14.04 (because of a misconfigured system according to Phillip Susi, which I doubt, but if it is the case, it was misconfigured because of some bug in the first place) So, is this what I need to do in order to prevent my computer from being bricked again by an upgrade? dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc Will this ensure that updating grub and upgrading to 14.10 won't screw things up again? And then I guess that will ask me for some parameters, or to choose something. If so, what command should I run to figure out what my current perfectly working configuration of grub is and make sure it is preserved, and/or to figure out the correct answer to whatever dpkg- reconfigure prompts may show up? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I just install Ubuntu 14.04.1 on a partition that previously had Ubuntu 13.10 on it. Now I can't access Windows or Ubuntu. All I get is the grub_term_highlight_color missing message. What should I do now? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/2014 4:21 AM, Zebulon wrote: I just install Ubuntu 14.04.1 on a partition that previously had Ubuntu 13.10 on it. Now I can't access Windows or Ubuntu. All I get is the grub_term_highlight_color missing message. What should I do now? You should file a new bug report and attach the files in /var/log/installer from your hard drive. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUdLSkAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwaIoIAJZf7MRIvrT1dXyWTfnB/a3g In5AwXX2Qb5Rt0cHP7HKM0LWkGB71nWcdvpp6LHHgie55YpZwX7nWkVRMAdrphtL fdSx8GziTLhYyHFcGpAXaBz4a2Z+1UfJVhG4NBXa6Wx65QSJRPOf6ZrWyikziRce uDMioZarq75Phb79G1yR9wJupVQfqbyyOAGgmgJ7mSHCnvyNR5MECKQeu3ly65V0 NCe2hBFK10fp/Ct1ufTbkIawnR3Icc1iyW0gMfdPtz2i2l0cotv8nULosoeBLRuZ 7uE9fmTJrS1IP3VaFTMlvcZpfZ/smVzmBe5LOTQgi0iXZKUSN8WWurlDxrcuAkw= =4vIu -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Sorry,the bug I've linked is about grub either breaking after an update to 14.04 (for some people) or not working right after a clean install of 14.04 (for some other folks,including me):I somehow assumed that it could be related to this one,although the error message is different. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/1/2014 11:13 AM, cogset wrote: Did you have a look at this other bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1311247 ? You seem to have linked the wrong bug because that one doesn't say anything at all like that. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUV5E0AAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwOlMH/0HdYji+dZpO1MW+HvLQOYTu sA+MOG9phZ3MGBUj2Bp6tcc3dt0PRRNNx1DnJFDUWCZlfX/2awDy+fctHMyM0Cuo qR8MpMyogMV/qDWg0suWr5vTT8wbimAn82TjQ1KJjBQRpOavfnOfONW14VdFjWic 37JQKnb7j9U1lN+R6VppwBqWoQwBLjhryIM4FE0p7Ejg/gddJ+zt94Rjp5Qvobdp pf964ebBD/8+uGVAK3wORD9c4vhC6LOJ5rpNIE/TA4hMLkQ6Vn38rDUixMAxF6ls miw6SfQ7GDL/t9yV187e0BcL5fTQPAy4O8FaeqQoBe9KDfd4447YxLWw7u9dVeY= =EmpD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I guess I did not make myself clear in #272. When the upgrade to 14.04 from 13.10 failed the first time, the message I got on attempted boot was, error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found. That points to this bug. Bug 1311247 does not give that error. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Then your 14.10 install did not install grub correctly ( i.e. it failed to install, or installed it to a place your system did not actually boot from ), leaving the previous grub install you had to try and fail to boot. Which confirms there's a bug somewhere. The bottom line is that this message happens because you have one version of grub in your MBR, and a different version in your /boot directory. Which is something that should never happen no matter what. The very fact that this can happen is _the_ bug (unless, of course, one manually runs a command to purposefully create that situation, with some kind of --force option or after answering yes to a warning prompt). Assuming that your diagnosis is correct, that is. Of which I am not completely sure, given that you have a history of negating facts (as in I haven't seen anyone report this on a fresh install). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/01/2014 06:20 AM, Teo wrote: Which confirms there's a bug somewhere. No, it does not. Installing grub to the wrong place because you manually chose it is not a bug. Installing grub to /dev/sda by default when your computer actually boots from another drive is also not a bug, because unfortunately, there simply is no way to detect which drive the computer boots from due to the limitations of the pc bios. If grub outright failed to install, then there *may* be a bug. The installer automatically files a bug report when this happens so it can be investigated. Which is something that should never happen no matter what. The very fact that this can happen is _the_ bug (unless, of course, one manually runs a command to purposefully create that situation, with some kind of --force option or after answering yes to a warning prompt). Never happen no matter what is asking for a magic wand and unicorns. There are some things we can control, and some we can not. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUVOvCAAoJENRVrw2cjl5RRbUIAKTbN/lMw19lCjSMH9658ful EZgqMkXa7sIO0lh43+BAnWkfrqIKPk49pxiFRKUgW1otFKQI2butpjRKypBKNmal o6F444lwV9daUjOoYa79VxNPBxx7AUAshXNZpyu96uRQv7RLbI6qcA6Dggndp+Bm +TAV5PBxEKrPsiXyIudIv0q7OoeSTQasU/9Ru5k2As5CLDa2JHj7sE1gohVbvVpz Sy4GWTnfbFU++1ye5c9OQbpA1oeGfmyj5zl8AMr6aUDxaHqUhVOmv+WROH/OIgjf 9/iORt5+QcZl3BlE90mAh8KkWSemomZPWoojA5v2ITusuG1VMBMLOzHUCBl5CCU= =Bq+T -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
No, it does not. Installing grub to the wrong place because you manually chose it is not a bug. Who talked about manually choosing? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Never happen no matter what is asking for a magic wand and unicorns. No matter what was a sloppy phrasing, agreed. I should have said whenever it can be avoided. No need for magic wand or unicorns, just a few checks. And here it definitlely can be avoided at least to some extend, while absolutely nothing is done to even attempt to avoid that. There are some things we can control, and some we can not. And here, there are definitely things that can, and hence should, be controlled, and that are not being controlled, hence a bug. Note that I'm always talking about Ubuntu as a whole; which part of it is responsible for doing right what is being done wrong, I don't know. It may be Grub, it may be the Grub packaging in Ubuntu, or it may be some other part of ubuntu. Ubuntu is miserably failing to provide an easy or at least reliable way to install it in dual-boot on a system that has another OS, namely Windows 8. Following the instructions that are given during installations fails. Following the instructions that are given in the official docs fails. You're left alone either tinkering or using third party repair tools. And when you do and get it to work, a system upgrade on a machine that works breaks it. That's simply not an acceptable UX. That's my experience. Other users have reported doing a bare fresh zero-tinkering install immediately resulting in a broken system, or doing a bare fresh zero-tinkering install which resulted in a working system which broke at some later dist-upgrade. That's something that should never happen, and here I really can say no matter what. Comments 55, 91, 137 report cases where absolutely no manual installation or third party tools were ever used. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
On 11/01/2014 06:20 AM, Teo wrote: Which confirms there's a bug somewhere. No, it does not. Installing grub to the wrong place because you manually chose it is not a bug. Installing grub to /dev/sda by default when your computer actually boots from another drive is also not a bug, because unfortunately, there simply is no way to detect which drive the computer boots from due to the limitations of the pc bios. If grub outright failed to install, then there *may* be a bug. The installer automatically files a bug report when this happens so it can be investigated. Did you have a look at this other bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1311247 ? There has to be something wrong in Ubuntu 14.04 concerning grub,because in some fresh installations,after everything has finished normally and the OS has been apparently installed without errors,then the system simply won't boot at all,period. The workaround has been installing grub to a dedicated boot partition,something I wouldn't call a normal installation procedure:I've never had to do that with any other Linux system so far,including previous Ubuntu releases. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Here is some information that might shed some light on the problem. I am running Linux in a virtual machine (VM) using VirtualBox. I have a working 13.10 VM that boots using /boot on /sda1, and a number of other disks that are tied together using LVM. The /root, /home, etc. directories are all in the LVM. Linux is the only operating system. I took a tar copy of all the files associated with the 13.10 VM. Then: 1. I tried to upgrade to 14.04. The upgrade seemed to succeed, but would not boot with the dreaded grub_term_highlight_color missing message. 2. I took a tar copy of the VM with the failed upgrade. I still have this copy. 3. I used tar to restore the 13.10 VM 4. I used the recommended sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc command. The message informed me that the disk that grub was originally installed to was no longer present. I believe this message is true. It also presented me with a list of disks to install grub to. There was no default chosen for me (I expected to find /dev/sda as default). If I hit OK without choosing a disk, it warned me that grub would not be installed. I went back to the list, chose /dev/sda and hit OK. It then did its job with No error reported. 5. I then did the upgrade to 14.04. The upgraded system booted normally. SUCCESS! My conclusion is that the upgrade process on my original system NEVER INSTALLED GRUB at all! When it did the equivalent of the dpkg- reconfigure grub-pc, it found that the original disk grub was installed to was missing (true) but then decided NOT to install grub anywhere. In comment 268, Philip Susi indicated this might be a bug, and I agree it is a bug in my situation. I suggest that, at the end of the upgrade process, when the upgrader asks whether or not to remove obsolete packages, it should also warn the user that grub was never installed and give the user another chance to install it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
@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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/31/2014 02:08 PM, Br. Peter Totleben, O.P. wrote: 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. Seeing as how there have been hundreds of disjointed complaints in this thread, that is possible. This is why I tried to get people to file their own reports until they could be triaged and truly identified to be the same, or a different issue, but alas, that didn't happen so now it's all ajumble. Of that jumble I did spend some time trying to carefully look into quite a few before it became clear to me that they fall into basically the same category, with perhaps three different subtle variations. 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. Then your 14.10 install did not install grub correctly ( i.e. it failed to install, or installed it to a place your system did not actually boot from ), leaving the previous grub install you had to try and fail to boot. 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. No, I am not making stuff up. I understand what causes this message, and the possible ways that could occur ( in general; perhaps there are still one or two subtle variations I have not yet identified ), and confirmed these were in fact, the ways that many of the people posting here arrived there. The bottom line is that this message happens because you have one version of grub in your MBR, and a different version in your /boot directory. This does not happen when ubiquity installs grub successfully and to the correct place. The only way that ubiquity installs grub successfully but to the wrong place is when you either explicitly tell it to install to the wrong place, or if you have multiple disks, in which case it assumes your system boots from sda, and if this is not the case, then yes, you do need to manually tell it the correct drive and there just isn't anything we can do about that other than your manual intervention there ( and then you only get this error if you previously had installed an older version of grub on the drive your system actually boots from ). -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUVFXqAAoJENRVrw2cjl5R6esH/3q6H0iVe20l4Cv5gQRDbJDx /2ZKg9tV+hD/V1PYWeG/+Cwo/mqN9/TL2NHcC492Nz3u0iQDqKGiXe9XZH0U81VV G29fXJJJ7iWOWY7Qd0ysdJ/RNfeXFsARcPQiVCD8g8kl+2W89wcbcauYdC2UsA4r zNUUv65PgQGWINXSCjrctr/By7eH5SPFS86mAPXZPh5Zq2ivYjuj860JhRcLAiFH V+NoJKIvyGQbKOW3slEIfh8FCM3CIOUD2psOCcOOJmG0k0QcdQmc6J2s1w908b4s mawApy77e6t8dfjyHpO77yhZwo2xo9sBqAjBmnUDv5pnk7YRyrTXupvIhPFLvhk= =SJi0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
That's not what I did, I installed Ubuntu via LiveCD and then did upgrade via updater. I definitely didn't edit something manually. I only used super grub disk to repair my grub after it was broken by the updater. But go on close this bug. Let's pretend this never happens. Also it's only grub, it's not that hard to repair it for every Ubuntu user affected. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
This is ridiculous. Can someone else please fix the root cause? It's well beyond obvious by now that Phillip Susi doesn't care at all about ubuntu and its users. It sounds like Peter Totleben has the most complete and useful information so far - can you please submit a new bug report with your findings? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
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. I'm not sure how I fixed it. I followed the instructions provided in some of the comments above by some other victim of the issue. But it was almost certainly the second way. Will I (and others in my situation) hit the problem again only when dist-upgrading to 14.10 (which is already out btw) or also when installing the grub updates that have been available for a while? (which I have always avoided installing just in case)? Secondly and most important, what should I do so that the package system knows whatever it needs to know, so that I can dist-upgrade without screwing up my working system again? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/30/2014 11:19 AM, Teo wrote: Will I (and others in my situation) hit the problem again only when dist-upgrading to 14.10 (which is already out btw) or also when installing the grub updates that have been available for a while? (which I have always avoided installing just in case)? It can happen on any update, but won't necessarily happen on every update. Secondly and most important, what should I do so that the package system knows whatever it needs to know, so that I can dist-upgrade without screwing up my working system again? Assuming you are on a bios booting machine and therefore using grub-pc, use dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc to select the correct drive(s) where it should be installed. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUUnY1AAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwZxQH/jWlHYbmK7WdHiNV0iSlK3Ux U4ANKhj6/hQyzL1E+CvkVmSr2Rg+9gUXFH43VREa/VlftCYWjYghAjmZu/wT9B8o fBeoLt4teeTiN0QuTc8ZCPRNC1rdnmUdetaG8ed5SNiFl/sl2q/dlrVDcEXAPwyI wPruW60Ku5dxoqhbbkMeoCxHUs4ak5SHkIVXri2O1cAyoDUSMcyUrJBhnmy+dcD/ AdD2FtiXUr8kykQiSSzRLT+6GcSEoNNUXAvg1U7hpaqiYug10xBhWh5NIVE2waaw L9alqFZHViWp0NR3uGED2K7hlXvLD+9QOaTtEKcVikmcTmS8kw2FMyEvU9g0sQA= =9F0a -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Even though it might not be a bug in grub, it's a bug in Ubiquity (which installs Grub the wrong way) or Ubuntu's updater (which updates Grub in a wrong way). Most users have these problems because Grub was automatically installed and upgraded, they had not configured it by hand. So closing the bug is no solution... I guess it's normal these days for Ubuntu. Even critical bugs which breaks the user's system aren't fixed although the bug was reported on a beta 2 releases before. I have also seen this attitude in many other bug reports. Canonical only care's for Ubuntu mobile. I can only recommend to use and rest on LTS or switch to other user friendly distributions, which care more. It's the said reality, but we should face it. Its only getting worse... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
@psusi 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. You start with No,, but you confirm what I said. Note I didn't say the bug is in grub itself; I have no idea whether it's in grub or in Ubuntu or in Ubuntu's packaging of grub, but something is broken if this situation happens in the first place. there is a broken installation of grub If there is a broken installation, something is broken. A few users got that broken installation after a fresh install, so some piece of software responsible for installing it didn't do its job correctly. I (and others) got that broken installation after having to manually touch things because the Ubuntu installer just hadn't been capable of installing the system. I didn't tinker with things because I wanted to, I was forced to because the Ubuntu installer doesn't do its job and the docs don't offer any instructions that work, so I had to try things. If I happened to touch something wrong, it was because I was forced to touch things that I shouldn't even have had to touch. 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. Which is what must be done to fix this issue. A robust OS (like any robust piece of software) cheks things and warns you if it's going to break. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/2014 4:37 AM, Mathias Dietrich wrote: Even though it might not be a bug in grub, it's a bug in Ubiquity (which installs Grub the wrong way) or Ubuntu's updater (which updates Grub in a wrong way). Most users have these problems because Grub was automatically installed and upgraded, they had not configured it by hand. So closing the bug is no solution... No; ubiquity installs it just fine. The problem comes when it *fails* to install it ( typically because you asked it to install grub to the wrong place ) and you manually install grub yourself, possibly via a third party repair tool like grub-repair. That is when things go wrong but you don't realize it because grub works... until it's time to upgrade. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUUPqoAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrw4vIH/A4oIDJnYSVWmUMp/NNQkZ3a /uu0qeaplfQasEcqsvub6DjcZBdNWNpN83o3NeKpp0ULcV/uL9fux1l2Jtkprvrv L4dTeVNgT6io3hmM/KnlvWGLdlQzNsgGdcnho5WZyaaIDzYMDu/Oo8Yx4wAOQxiz 2k/KqpU2Ohf4SnVz3xjaX7apPMFEaRYpI7TVNHfr3GnjBKL22AYLNOwknidXkRuy fKUmfSh33zVDW36GChHEaOa595TARK43LNfaBtJDNlXvMpVXTXK/kbCrOSDpZLvM 7zqemerM9XVstU6VYPwBeD7taxOUFKEkWLhgbvzHpDUiRqqdgCn1uJN2MYqPrtY= =gUpS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/27/2014 11:52 PM, Br. Peter Totleben, O.P. wrote: The problem here is actually a bug that is internal to grub itself, and not to Ubuntu, per se. The problem is that Ubuntu Trusty (14.04) and Ubuntu Utopic (14.10) both include buggy versions of Grub. This is because the Ubuntu people decided to include beta versions of Grub 2.02 in both Trusty and Saucy. (Why this was done, especially for an LTS release is not quite something that I understand). No, it is not. The problem here is that people tinker with their system to get a grub installation that works, yet is broken. Since it works, they don't notice it is broken until they upgrade, at which time, the upgrade updates one part of grub, and not the other, leading to the error. There is nothing wrong with grub itself; it is entirely in how it is installed and upgraded. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUT53uAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrw+HcH/0xMFD4/ofzVeqnSSzMmJdZv 21Du5KsyA+fBek5nfBU5/QsDz3iOaUnhV6AKl/PhG4uV12Y9BNaCvBbDjq0WcKgM i8mGKeh9MMcYj1mAUfG8mUx1RIfBB86EdAzSyypQSW6ar2b1/IZ1Pc/75tZzpgV0 PwXtbeA7Tnmt2iVcex9ksgv//HjGzySSxW9blf/mJ8geHYTyfHtqjNILm6Y4120n ItVBO23hF85FoJglU4x3Dqp55PHh0yHx7gFug0QScvlPD8aCf9LN2ij3AJUtoxVJ WNqK1UUIz6paHgbtBtWu858KqwMHVAKPhu7m/NGBDS4EWoeN+pYYHz1XWGbZEGI= =ZcIS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
@psusi how can you tell that? A lot of people may have broken something in their grub that was exposed during the upgrade, but what about the others that found the problem with a plain system and a fresh install? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/28/2014 01:07 PM, aldo wrote: @psusi how can you tell that? A lot of people may have broken something in their grub that was exposed during the upgrade, but what about the others that found the problem with a plain system and a fresh install? I haven't seen anyone report this on a fresh install. It is always after an upgrade, which normally replaces both parts of grub on the disk. The symbol grub_term_highlight_color was removed from the new version of grub intentionally. When only one part of grub is upgraded, the other, older part generates this error because it is still looking for it and can't find it, because the part that used to contain it was upgraded. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUUDdaAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwKZkH/32nWWq987LWIdmKjrQOTKZq kR1yOHsERmQNXV/Kpiiidb/LP+Efor+qi3NM3ilZp3K69ukJzApdy7EhjPI5hURe w/UJHpwMxUfSFV5eIBhLNum+bIunpbRaIrhD1zGCimgz6aZGyz0dDh6fDYfpO+LT J0pKo0D8wPzNa4ZDL93fvq4MuzDpV3GXEU7yihgsmiyko2s6ui83nMIoDbpIAr6o 6XZ/bCdqKBIHBAGJUw24Ea2LQppvq8+HIzL00SnhK8r0XcvzAa/16EgIP9WjB27N 3UzuNdL+tJJrbPhHSvwZLe11ZaDXkiGP7HV3SOgDMSPP9GRo6CbqiS1h7zaVIho= =zpuD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I haven't seen anyone report this on a fresh install. It is always after an upgrade, That's untrue and you know it. There are a few comments on this very page reporting the issue on fresh install. And you did see them; I seem to remember you said you just don't believe them (I'm too lazy to look for it now), but that's a different thing. 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. 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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 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. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUUE92AAoJENRVrw2cjl5RA1oIAK2UTMf/t6FtADGgK8VPiAma 1nbLe3k3VG4o8M5TmsCi+IPmM+8lcnkdoqChErWX/PG2U9eKxvh25GTMaFFsc5QO iu5u4h7b5v9ROYeCqH3vt4Zj1ifrMKhzORRMkkOv09A1u/6PVKGc0HLIvamFMF4c QcLzgFLwEnPI7uBxkRXLIbO3EIKeVPWF4P7ROc9zAD9ggx6rU33qmNYJpd7by1vd /+V+vc5GqsAOdRaHR00fWHSZ7vkjG1le5pgBaaQEmHEmo3lugJH1Tm8nMfApYeoV 5dEgkgPVeaQWS+u1Lx2RtbNtuAEG1vx37ab3UCVwS39s6IsC97XwDbTOcSE0QxA= =K7FT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I have only encountered this if [for example] I had grub originally installed in some pbr (eg; sda6) and I later changed the location to the mbr (eg; sda) using grub-install /dev/sda rather than using dpkg- reconfigure grub-pc. Then apparently the release-upgrade reads the prior dpkg info therefore installing grub in the wrong location. That of course explains a broken boot but I never quite understood the error message, it's just not that hard to fix so I really haven't worried much about it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
My answer to Teo's question regarding upgrades: I have had no problem with updates of any of 10.04 packages. My history is that I did a fresh install of 9.04, ran into a problem which I could solve using grub-repair, then upgraded to 9.10 without any problem, and during upgrade to 10.04 ran into this bug, which I solved somehow. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Note that this problem also exists in Ubuntu 14.10. Before I get in to all of this, I should explain my setup, so that people who are interested in my solution can figure out if they are in a similar boat. I have a Dell Inspiron laptop with UEFI and a Windows 8 partition. (Earlier I had already turned off SecureBoot in my computer's Setup). I have only one hard drive. Previously I had Linux Mint 15 installed on my computer, and it was dual-booted with Windows 8. I have just installed Ubuntu-Gnome 14.10. After quit a bit of fussing, I have Ubuntu-Gnome 14.10 up and running, and can again successfully dual-boot Windows 8. The problem here is actually a bug that is internal to grub itself, and not to Ubuntu, per se. The problem is that Ubuntu Trusty (14.04) and Ubuntu Utopic (14.10) both include buggy versions of Grub. This is because the Ubuntu people decided to include beta versions of Grub 2.02 in both Trusty and Saucy. (Why this was done, especially for an LTS release is not quite something that I understand). For any Grub people that might happen to read this, the grub that is included with Ubuntu 14.10 (grub2.02-beta2-15) contains the undefined symbol `grub_term_highlight_color` in a few of the .mod files. This can be verified by typing `nm -A /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/*.mod | grep grub_term_highlight_color` For anyone who has been bitten by this. The news is mostly good: your Ubuntu 14.04/14.10 installation is safe and sound on your computer, and if you have a Windows partition, that is okay as well. The only bad part is: fixing this error is a bit of a pain. What we have to do is to downgrade the version of grub that you are running to the one that is used in Ubuntu Saucy (13.10). Then, we can use boot-repair to get the Windows partition back onto the boot menu, if this is needed. Here is how to do it . . . **Part 0: Preliminaries** Before I get in to the details of how to do all of this, I will tell you how my computer is set up, so that you can change the commands below as necessary. -- I have a UEFI boot partition at /dev/sda0, which is mounted as /boot/efi -- I have a Windows partition at /dev/sda5, which is mounted as /windows -- I have a Linux Partition at /dev/sda8, which is mounted as / -- I have another Linux partition for my home directories at /dev/sda9, which is mounted as /home -- My home directory is /home/peter Also, these instructions assume that you have a UEFI system, and that you are interested in the AMD-64 packages. If this is not the case for you, then you can try modifying the instructions below, but they may or may not work. There are basically two different ways that you can get at your fresh Ubuntu 14.04/14.10 installation. On my Dell as the computer is first booting, while the Dell Splash Screen shows up, I can press F12 to get a boot menu. On this menu, I can select the Ubuntu option, and I can get into my installation. You might have something similar. If you can do this, then boot into your Ubuntu 14.04/14.10 installation in this way. It will make the process a little bit shorter for you. If not, you need some sort of boot image that will get you to a Linux prompt. You can just use the installation CD or USB drive that you used to install Ubuntu in the first place. Choose the Try Ubuntu without installing option when you boot from this CD or USB Drive. The process will be slightly more complex for you. Note that this presupposes a working Internet connection -- so if you are booting off of a CD or USB drive, you will have to set that up. Part 1: Downloading the Grub Packages from Ubuntu Saucy (13.10) - The first thing that we need to do is get the old version of Grub. In order to do this, you will have to download 5 files from the Ubuntu archives: -- http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/pool/main/g/grub2/grub-common_2.00-19ubuntu2_amd64.deb -- http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/pool/main/g/grub2/grub-efi_2.00-19ubuntu2_amd64.deb -- http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/pool/main/g/grub2/grub-efi-amd64_2.00-19ubuntu2_amd64.deb -- http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/pool/main/g/grub2/grub-efi-amd64-bin_2.00-19ubuntu2_amd64.deb -- http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/pool/main/g/grub2/grub2-common_2.00-19ubuntu2_amd64.deb Just save these into the default downloads directory. (This is most likely ~/Downloads). Note that I will be assuming that these five files are the only .deb files in the Downloads directory. If you have other .deb files in your downloads directory, move them somewhere else for the time being. Part 2: For People Who Booted off of a CD or USB - If you are doing this in your fresh Ubuntu install, you can skip down to Part III. But, if you booted off of the CD or DVD, we've got to get things set up so that all of these files will install into the right place.
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Folks, I was bit by this today, turning my dual-bootable laptop into a brick. I tried a lot of things here and nothing worked. What did work for me was following directions in http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/245 I'm running Linux Mint 17 Qiana, which is based on Ubuntu 14.04 I was upgrading from Mint 16 to Mint 17 and the install appeared to work fine. For me, the following worked: mount /dev/sda5 /mnt grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda reboot which is close to some suggestions others made but those didn't work for me. Obviously you'd need to change the sda5 to whatever is appropriate for you. No, I have not made a typo above. There is no trailing number on the sda for the grub-install command. The above for me worked, despite the error message: grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of /cow. Hope this helps. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
@cjwatson again, could you please tell us whether or not it is safe to install the latest grub updates for those of us who had the bug, had the boot broken, and had fixed it? The problem is: there are updates available and I have no idea whether installing them will cause the same thing to run which screwed up the boot on dist upgrade. I appreciate comments made by other users but they don't calrify this point. I understand you cannot guarantee whether anything bad will happen or not by updating grup, but given it's you who maintains the package, you should easily know whether or not: 1 - merely installing the updates will run the same scripts that ran on distupgrade which screwed up some boot configurations 2 - the issue has been addressed in any way so that even if (1) is the case, it may not cause the disaster any more Obviously I won't take the risk if (2) is true, but I'd rather keep grub up to date if (1) is false. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I run the release upgrade from a completely up-to-date 12.04 from the Update Manager and it completed without problem. After the upgrade had finished I performed the restart and faced the grub rescue prompt and got puzzled understandably. Then I searched and found this bug and figured out that the error might be related to the boot order. I have 2 HDDs in the box - one IDE and one SATA -, with a single Xubuntu installation. The BIOS was set to boot from the IDE HDD, the OS resides on that. In the BIOS boot order I moved the SATA HDD before the IDE HDD and after a reboot 14.04 booted like a charm. Thought I share my experience, since I didn't see this solution here above. True, the report above is rather lengthy and I didn't read through all the posts, so I'm sorry if I duplicated. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I can confirm that there is some regression going from grub2 2.00 to 2.02~beta2. I have disk0 with traditional partition table and three partitions: sda1 is Windows boot sda2 is Windows system sda3 is linux Mint root partition (with /boot inside it) In the past I manually set up the Windows bootloader as to chainload with grub, therefore grub is installed only in sda3 boot sector. This worked well until I attempted upgrade to Mint Quiana via do-release-upgrade. After the upgrade the Windows bootloader came up as before, but selecting the item for Mint gave exactly the error reported here. Therefore I booted from a USB stick containing Boot-Repair-Disk (which I understand is really Lubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail) and executed the following as root: grub-install --force --boot-directory=/mnt/boot-sav/sda3/boot /dev/sda3 It showed the usual warning about blocklists, but the error went away and I was able to boot linux Mint through the Windows bootloader. Once inside Mint I executed the following as root: grub-install --force --boot-directory=/boot /dev/sda3 At the next boot the same identical error about symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found was to be seen. The relevant difference seems to be that Boot-Repair-Disk has grub2 2.00 while Mint Quiana has grub2 2.02~beta2. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I am still trying to fix my system after upgrading from xubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 (amd64). I ran boot-repair after installing 13.10 like many others. No hardware change since I bought the system. I have a hybrid harddisk, but the SSD is only used by Windows. BIOS config is UEFI with secure boot disabled. nm -A /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/*.mod | grep highlight_color shows undefined references to grub_term_highlight_color in gfxterm.mod, normal.mod and terminfo.mod. I don't know for sure if any of these files is causing this problem. Does anyone know how to find out what grub uses? Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I've made a clean install on a 13.04 dual-boot, efi notebook. first boot i got that error message. i tried boot-repair with and without secure- boot (disabled by bios), but that didn't worked. Here is the url of the report: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7951398/ so i tried to reset grub manually with dpkg --configure -a apt-get install -fy apt-get purge -y --force-yes grub*-common shim-signed linux-signed* apt-get install -y --force-yes grub-efi_amd64 linux grub-install /dev/sda2 ##efi partition still nothing. i found that i couldchange the efi boot order and select ubuntu, which gives me a half working grub, because while ubuntu boots up, windows (even if os-prober finds it) does not. it doesn't even if i choose boot from efi file from efi boot menu. any clue? thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
to be precise, here is my last boot-info report: http://paste.ubuntu.com/8159797/. strange thing is that on the last run in the log i found this: locating grub_term_highlight_color at 0xb7e8 (0xb4e0). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
@Teo: I updated grub, but afterwards, just to be sure, I ran the grub-install command like I did when I repaired my non-booting system. My laptop still boots. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
** Attachment removed: Screenshot from 2014-07-24 13:30:10.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+attachment/4161851/+files/Screenshot%20from%202014-07-24%2013%3A30%3A10.png ** Attachment removed: Screenshot from 2014-07-24 13:30:10.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+attachment/4161856/+files/Screenshot%20from%202014-07-24%2013%3A30%3A10.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
@Colin Watson: Thanks for taking the time to look into this. I was left very disheartened earlier in the year when I upgraded, hit this problem and then was just dismissed. The reason I am commenting now is I ran an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday. I booted the machine this evening and have hit the same error. I know I installed a new kernel, I'm guessing there was a grub upgrade. I don't need the machine now so I can leave it before attempting to fix. What can I do to get more information to either determine whether this bug affects me or help with a solution? Adam Niedling previously suggested the output of sudo parted -l and sudo debconf-show grub-pc would be useful. Is that still the case? Regards, Cian -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
@cjwatson do you know the answer to my question in comment #234? I have stopped updating my system since the update for grup has become available, because I fear I may incur in the same issue again. I think everybody who has had this issue and recovered from it urgently needs to know whether we can safely install these updates or not. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I DID attach the file while writing the previous comment. I didn't forget to attach it. It simply didn't get through for some reason. Here it is again. ** Attachment added: Screenshot from 2014-07-24 13:30:10.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+attachment/4161851/+files/Screenshot%20from%202014-07-24%2013%3A30%3A10.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Ok, now the time has come to be scared. Given that upgrading from 13.10 to 14.04 broke my boot and bricked my computer because of this bug, and that I fixed it (long ago) using the methods that have been commented above, and I have a wonderfully working 14.04 (in dual boot with Windows 8), WILL installing these updates in GRUB (see screenshot) break my boot again? Should I be worried about installing these updates? Please refrain from making educated guesses. I need a reliable answer, either from anybody that that had the problem when upgrading to 14.04, fixed it, and has now installed these updates, and can tell whether or not they broke the boot again; or by anyone that wrote the relevant source code or anyway knows FOR SURE whether or not these update will trigger the same kind of shameful disaster that the upgrade did. ** Attachment added: Screenshot from 2014-07-24 13:30:10.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+attachment/4161850/+files/Screenshot%20from%202014-07-24%2013%3A30%3A10.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Fuck it, what the hell is wrong with Launchpad? Why doesn't it accept the attachment and doesn't even show an error message??? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
** Attachment added: Screenshot from 2014-07-24 13:30:10.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+attachment/4161856/+files/Screenshot%20from%202014-07-24%2013%3A30%3A10.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
F*** it, Launchpad silently discards the screenshot every time I try to attach it to this report, and it even keeps showing a confirmation that it has been attached though it doesn't show up anywhere. However for some reason it has allowed me to attach it to another report, so here's the link to the screenshot: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/180644403/Screenshot%20from%202014-07-24%2013%3A30%3A10.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Comment #14 helped me. I have dualboot laptop with Windows on the first disk where the old grub was installed and the second disk with Linux partition. The issue was that the grub on the second disk was upgraded, but on the first one, that was actually used, wasn't. I used USB installation disk to restore grub using boot-repair and after successful start of the laptop ran debconf-show to configure grub updates to be installed on both disks. It would be fine if grub upgrade script checked for multiple grubs and issue warning/error about some grubs not being updated if that can make system not bootable -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I can't believe that anyone may chalk this up to a supposedly incorrect setup:as many others have reported,I've just done a clean install (Lubuntu Trusty) from CD to a new hard drive,the installation process finished normally and then the system could not be booted,period. After fiddling with grub commands and managing to boot the system only to confirm that once booted there were no issues and the problem was the boot process in itself,I've resorted to a separate boot partition as advised in many threads,which only partially solves the issue:the system can now boot,yet it still spits out error messages in the process,and furthermore can't be rebooted,it has to be shut down and then restarted. I've installed several Debian and Debian-based distros so far (including earlier Ubuntu releases) on not-standard multi-boot setups,reinstalled Grub after recovering some partition,and not once run into this issue:I can't see how reinstalling/reconfiguring Grub,resorting to command line methods or having to otherwise repair Grub may be part of a normal installation process. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I fix this by boot repair tool, very easy to use and worked for me (upgrade 13.10 to 14.04LTS). refer: http://askubuntu.com/a/229982 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Thanks @palmar, easy fix, works well. I did it with a lubuntu live-cd, but same all... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
This happened to me when upgrading from 13.10 to 14.04. I did not have any special Grub settings as far as I know. I was unable to manually boot from the Grub rescue prompt as it could not read the partition filesystems (said they were msdos while they are ext). I tried the recommended solution from comment #39, i.e. run Boot-repair from a live USB, but when it wanted to reinstall Grub from a chroot on the broken partition it failed because I also suffered this bug from the same upgrade: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings- daemon/+bug/1286404 . Running dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc from a chroot on the broken partition using a live USB (Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 if I remember correctly) fixed the problem for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Update: the boot repair disk fails to boot, because of the PAE bug. Adding forcepae to the boot options does not help either. However, Super Grub2 Disk does boot, recognizes the config and can be used to boot the system. Now I have the safest laptop ever! Nobody can boot it but me! In the previous post I thought that the found filesystems were broken, bu this is not the case. The /boot directory on the / partition is off course empty because the /boot partition was mounted there. Reading this list and different forums on the internet, ot appears that the master boot record and the grub2 install are no longer in sync when / and /boot are on different partitions. I tried a re-install (using synaptic) of the packages grub-pc, grub- pc-bin, and grub2-common. It did not solve the issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I got my machine too boot again: * I Used the Super Grub Disk to boot into the existing installation on my laptop * I checked /etc/mtab to see which device was mounted (in my case /dev/sda) * then I ran sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/boot /dev/sda For people using the Super Grub Disk: selecting the mysterious option everything will enable you to select the existing boot configuration on your hard disk. If you booted from an external CD drive, you can remove it after booting. The boot repair disk was not an option. It refuses to boot when burned to CD, adding the repository failed (the command add-apt-repository does not exist), and downloading the debs only gives a message enresolvable dependencies, even when extra library debs were downloaded and tried first. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I know a lot has been said already, but I want to add my case just for the record. It just might contain info on what went unexpectedly right or wrong when it shouldn't have. I had a working 13.10 installation on a (pretty ancient but indestructible) Panasonic CF-18 Toughbook. This is one of the devices from the time that PAE was enabled but kept secret. I had modified the grub configuration to show the menu at boot, using the normal way of editing /etc/default/grub and running sudo update-grub. The menu showed, so this worked. No error messages. I had 3 partitions on only one hard drive: /, /boot and swap. I always like to have a separate boot partition in case things go wrong, but reading the comments this has bitten me now. From the grub_rescue prompt, I can barely do anything, but the ls command works and I see that: (hd0,msdos3) contains an EMPTY /boot/grub directory, (hd0,msdos2) contains no files (the swap partition) (hd0,msdos1) contains the images (like vmlinuz-3.8.0-34-generic) in its root directory and a /grub directory, but no /boot directory. Something is definitely broken here! For the record, none of these partitions were formatted with a FAT filesystem. After I did sudo do-release-upgrade, I waited with the reboot, and re- added my third party add-ins. I read that fake-pae was no longer needed, but a kernel option forcepae was, so I removed the repository that provided the fake-pae package, added that option to /etc/default/grub and ran sudo update-grub. No error message there either. My 2 cents: the release updater and update-grub should be able to tell what partition is the boot partition, so a misconfiguration on only one hard drive should be detected. I never manually messed with it, but just followed the installation wizzard when I installed Xubuntu. If the system was misconfigured, it gues that must have happened by either a system upgrade or the update-grub command. In any case, I would certainly expect update-grub to have warned me. Well, the rest you can guess: I shut down the machine in full confidence of an upgrade done well and was left with a system that does not boot anymore. Don't take this too hard, I am a half-power user, so I am not afraid to fix things. I just want to add that I was not using UEFI, not using more than one drive and have not yet (or in the past) repaired the boot process, though I did do some minor configuration in the proper way. So, please take this bug seriously. I is a critical one. By the way: the grub rescue prompt does not know the help command. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
My experience with this problem: 1- Use Super Grub Disk to start. 2- cd /etc/grub.d 3- sudo su 4- cp -a 05_debian_theme 05_debian_theme_old 5- Delete all in the file 05_debian_theme until last line with nano o vim. don't delete the last line -set_default_theme 6- sudo grub-install --recheck /dev/sdX It's works for me. --- sorry for my poor english -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
@Colin Watson: any updates on the bug? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
@ Colin Watson: Although I originally wanted to unsubscribe from this bug, to avoid the daily comments from this bug, I have to admit that it is good to hear that this is finally recognized as bug. As the original reporter of this bug, I can provide all the necessary configuration about my HDD setup, that made the grub-update script fail. If you are interested, just add a comment here about what you need. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I too experienced this bug: my perfectly-functional Ubuntu 13.10 (x86_64) system was rendered unbootable on upgrade to 14.04 with the grub grub_term_highlight_color error. My computer has two disk drives: one with Windows 8 and one with Ubuntu. I use GPT/EFI exclusively, with secure boot turned off. My EFI partition was formerly located on the Windows 8 drive. To fix this problem, I created an empty EFI partition on my Ubuntu disk and installed rEFInd from its installer script. It appears that my motherboard's EFI does not remember NVRAM settings for symbolic names like ubuntu or refind: it only remembers which device (i.e., disk) from which it should boot. In order to make refind work, I had to install it from its install script [1] as ./install.sh --usedefault /dev/sdXX which makes refind the device default for the disk on which it is installed. Caution: read the install script's manual carefully first! Now I can boot both OSs. I am not sure if this is the correct solution, but it helped me. If your system has been rendered unbootable in this state, Super Grub Disk can get you back into your OS so you can make these changes. [1] http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html#extra_installsh -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I also encountered (bug description on top) I found Boot-Repair advanced Settings Secure Boot to be enabled while in BIOS Settings it was not. So i simply switched the Setting in BIOS to enabled and error disapeared. HP Pavilion g6 3277sz Kind regards Markus -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I forgot to indicate (#221) efi/gpt Kind regards markus -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I copied a hard disk with kubuntu 13.10 to a new (bigger) one with dd, taking extra care to verify the copy with hashing it using md5sum. The copy was fine. It bootet correctly, everything behaved normally. After the upgrade to 14.04, the system didn't boot any more because of the error discussed in this thread. It could be made to run normally with the methods suggested somewhere in this thread, e.g. booting from a Live system (debian based that one), mounting relevant partitions, chrooting, rewriting the boot sector as described above, unmounting, rebooting. So maybe this bug has to do with switching hard disk. Is the installer creating some kind of hash or ID of the disk in order to determine it's course of action in some branches of it's code execution? This might be the reason for the breaking of the update in my case. I had same data on a new disk. If some hash/ID of the HD (as an individual HD) informs the installer that I switched the disk and that for that reason it shall not write the complete set of parts of the updated grub, then this is the reason why it failed in my case. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
I see a lot of activity on this subject and as an end user I am going to try 13.10 now since 14.04 failed to install on a clean machine. If I have to go through all the extra trouble to install this version on a clean machine then what is the point of installing it to begin with. It has been years since I have used linux and back then my preference was Red Hat but I wanted to get back into linux again and after reading several posts Ubuntu was ranked high. My process: Installed from a USB drive. I followed the instructions for creating the USB drive directly from the Ubuntu web site. The installation process was painful. I kept getting an error with nothing but ?'s repeated. Finally got the install to work only to reboot to a black screen which led me here. I can't say for sure if it is a bug or not but it is a pain to me. My system: Intel Server Board S2600GZ RAID array: 2 drives mirrored Dual Xeon quad core proc. 64 GB RAM If 13.10 doesn't work I will move to another distro for testing purposes. I hope this was of some help to someone and if not, my apologies for wasting space on here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
@robert-tindall I think you are definitely on to something. Your suggestions did help although my circumstances differed. I was running 14.04 with a downgraded version of grub due to this issue. I decided to go ahead and do a dist-upgrade. After that I would this error msg that everyone has been having (so basically no boot menu, no options whatsover just straight to grub_rescue). My laptop is a VAIO and does have EFI. Multiple restarts would still get me to grub_rescue. Then I decided to use the assist button and select load from USB (but I had no USB inserted). I got Operation system not found!. Then I turned off my computer, turned it on again and suddenly grub menu worked!!! I got into ubuntu and I tried to dpgk-reconfigure grub-pc only to find out that grub-pc was not installed and grub-efi was instead installed in its place. So, I did a apt-get install grub-pc and it automatically removed the grub-efi and install grub-pc. Now, when I restarted everything worked fine BUT the moment I entered windows and then restarted my computer again, I got the beautiful grub_rescue screen. I bypassed it by using the asist button, booting through a USB that does not exist and restarting. From what I've seen, grub-pc or grub-efi doesn't make a difference on the result. But, loading windows affects things. There is something that happens when loading windows in my case at least that forces ubuntu afterward to look for grub at the wrong place. Any ideas on what may be the issue? I suspect that somehow MBR is affected by Windows but in an UEFI computer I am not sure how that may be, -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Phillip, please do not close this bug again. As the Debian/Ubuntu grub2 maintainer, I have a list of things that I intend to do here and I do not need you telling users to go away before I have a chance to do so. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: Won't Fix = Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: Fwd: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 09:08:50AM +1000, Phil Diacono wrote: There is a lot of dissatisfaction about a problem that causes updates to Ubuntu 14.04 to fail to boot. Phillip Susi of Ubuntu feels this is not a bug whereas everyone who runs into feels that it is. We suspect it may affect many more users and be very detrimental to Ubuntu's reputation. I have reopened this bug. Phillip, please could you refrain from triaging grub2 bugs in this way? It creates *more* work for me, not less, and does not help. It would in fact help me if there were as few further comments as possible until I have a chance to address this (which I plan to do for 14.04.1), so that I have less to wade through. The hardest bugs to deal with are the ones that have descended into an argument, and rejecting real problems out of hand (and this most certainly is a real problem, probably one of the most common issues reported to me) increases the probability of arguments. Yes, this is complex, and there are indeed some cases that are largely intractable; but I do have some ideas of how my code for dealing with this class of problems could be improved so that at least it affects many fewer people. However, the confrontational approach of As a developer, I have said there is nothing we can do on our end to mitigate this, without even bothering to check with me whether that's an accurate reflection of the opinions of the person who does most of the work on the grub2 packaging, is not a good starting point for a conversation. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: Fwd: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/29/2014 6:34 AM, Colin Watson wrote: I have reopened this bug. Phillip, please could you refrain from triaging grub2 bugs in this way? It creates *more* work for me, not less, and does not help. It would in fact help me if there were as few further comments as possible until I have a chance to address this (which I plan to do for 14.04.1), so that I have less to wade through. The hardest bugs to deal with are the ones that have descended into an argument, and rejecting real problems out of hand (and this most certainly is a real problem, probably one of the most common issues reported to me) increases the probability of arguments. Indeed, part of the problem is that everyone piled into the same bug with several different issues rather than troubleshooting it on a case by case basis. Yes, this is complex, and there are indeed some cases that are largely intractable; but I do have some ideas of how my code for dealing with this class of problems could be improved so that at least it affects many fewer people. However, the confrontational approach of As a developer, I have said there is nothing we can do on our end to mitigate this, without even bothering to check with me whether that's an accurate reflection of the opinions of the person who does most of the work on the grub2 packaging, is not a good starting point for a conversation. It wasn't a starting point for a conversation; I had tried dozens of times for weeks to get more information, identify the cause(es), and explain why it was a result of incorrect action on the user's part. That statement was made in direct response to someone saying that as a user they felt they needed to reopen it ( yet again ) without understanding why I had closed it, or offering any real counter-argument. By that point I was throwing my arms in the air. It would be helpful if you would comment if you think there actually is something that might be done. Since this had gone on for some time without any comment from you, I assumed you were ignoring it as just another kvetch fest. I certainly would be interested in any ideas you might have. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJThzjSAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrw7TEH/2TZLrcRVa0fjeM+ToK1uyzC ol+vy6TSex4x9rKrp2caUkCtBfYX1+5ZEReMclkwn5RyXG7XKV08fgOtdWtdc9kd RccyOMVcEaibbyhGKMGWIbxkT2DCyl470cLiqhFvyAd3DbHBOunSCcY33EZ2tnZN SpLQqqor/dbZk0lXUHjglqtHP0ckA0a10sVk4iueOTgyrpu3yvZZHHg8Rowlsj3M V+XUythsUbtPfTcYp1nYhYpiSJTEVvG4G053gib/e+uggyXMlTAqz1CFaTz8+ygN 0s6nUGMy5n/sKnJzvR+4N/2bITpV2Uv9OGvDtUXxnPb/UGUTnsANQqCwii7DIvM= =qRUT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: Fwd: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 09:40:34AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: Indeed, part of the problem is that everyone piled into the same bug with several different issues rather than troubleshooting it on a case by case basis. This certainly happens, and I realise that's annoying; any bug like this is likely to be only partially fixed, and at some point people who still have problems will need to be directed to file new bugs rather than continuing to comment on the closed bug. However, closing the bug without making any technical changes is likely to be read as blowing *everyone* off, no matter the good intentions, and just compounds the problem. It wasn't a starting point for a conversation; I had tried dozens of times for weeks to get more information, identify the cause(es), and explain why it was a result of incorrect action on the user's part. That statement was made in direct response to someone saying that as a user they felt they needed to reopen it ( yet again ) without understanding why I had closed it, or offering any real counter-argument. By that point I was throwing my arms in the air. When people repeatedly reopen a bug, it's often worth considering whether it was actually the right thing to do to close it in the first place. The sheer number of people affected by this class of bugs is an indication that we shouldn't be closing it out of hand, even if you don't immediately see what we can do about it. Given that we have extensive maintainer script code for dealing with situations like this, there's clearly scope for further improvement. It would be helpful if you would comment if you think there actually is something that might be done. Since this had gone on for some time without any comment from you, I assumed you were ignoring it as just another kvetch fest. I certainly would be interested in any ideas you might have. I'm afraid I don't have time to read more than a tiny fraction of the bug mail I get, although this had been escalated to me by several folks in my management chain and I'd put it on my to-do list for 14.04.1; I'd just been heads-down in the image build infrastructure changes I'm currently doing, so hadn't emerged for long enough to dig through the bug. I don't yet have specific fixes in mind, but there is certainly plenty of fodder for investigation here. For example, skimming through the bug log, I see an instance (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/comments/207) where somebody swapped disks and then the maintainer scripts didn't realise that they needed to install GRUB to the new disk. This situation is *specifically* intended to be handled by the maintainer script code I wrote some time ago (and wrote up in http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/debian/2010-06-21-grub2-boot-problems.html), so if it's failing then I need to investigate that, not discard it as a situation we can't fix. This is a long-standing class of bug, although the precise details have varied over time. The reason it's so difficult to address is that the root causes are often far removed in time: if you get your configuration wrong then you often don't find out about it until the next upgrade. That makes this very challenging to deal with, although not impossible. In many cases this is user error, narrowly defined (that is, the user did not do the right thing, but perhaps we didn't do much to help them know what the right thing would be). Still, it's still sometimes possible to detect it heuristically and offer to correct the situation on upgrade: given that the result of failure is a failed boot, it's worth going beyond what we would ordinarily do to handle user error. For example, I'm considering approaches such as looking for binary signatures which would serve to identify GRUB across a wide range of versions, or patching grub-install to leave a note for future grub-pc.postinst runs, or going through my existing detection code again to try to find paths where it's supposed to ask questions but fails to do so. The other strand of investigation is to try to track down reasons why this happened in the first place. For example, I suspect that there may be some paths where installing Ubuntu leaves the wrong thing in grub-pc/install_devices. I'd also like to go through some of our user-facing documentation such as https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2, and try to cut it down a bit and review closely for any inaccuracies. If I find time I'd also like to review tools such as boot-repair and see if I can make sure that they don't fix immediate problems while leaving future timebombs around (which might relate to patching grub-install). That's a rough idea of what I plan to look at here. As you can see it's extensive and will require a good deal of continuous concentration; I expect to have to carve out at least three solid days to work on this. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- You
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
At a bare minimum, can't you detect whether the user has multiple hard drives and warn them before upgrading if they do and reference this bug report? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Well. Add me. Single drive, single boot, fresh 13.10 install using LVM and an encrypted partition. Upgraded to 14.04...and dead. So far running dpkg-reconfigure has been pointless, as have all the other steps I've tried. I find it rather amusing that the canned response is not a bug, you've obviously misconfiguration something. Are we sure the Firefox people haven't taken over the Ubuntu project? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Well, gosh. That was EASY! Here's the simple steps I used to fix this; the sort of thing any generic user should be able to pull out of thin air. The gist is I booted to an xubuntu 14.04 live CD, mounted and chrooted to my normal system, then ran dpkg-reconfigure and update-grub. I selected both /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 (I think all I needed was /dev/sda) on the reconfiguration. I expect SOMEONE will gripe about running on a root prompt, but that's been my modus operandi for doing rootish things since KR invented the darn thing back when I was a yout. root@xubuntu:~# cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 crypt Enter passphrase for /dev/sda5: root@xubuntu:~# cd /media/xubuntu/fb9186c7-9f3d-4a88-8d4b-9c8849e05a38/ root@xubuntu:/media/xubuntu/fb9186c7-9f3d-4a88-8d4b-9c8849e05a38# mount /dev/sda1 boot root@xubuntu:/media/xubuntu/fb9186c7-9f3d-4a88-8d4b-9c8849e05a38# mount --bind /proc proc root@xubuntu:/media/xubuntu/fb9186c7-9f3d-4a88-8d4b-9c8849e05a38# mount --bind /dev dev root@xubuntu:/media/xubuntu/fb9186c7-9f3d-4a88-8d4b-9c8849e05a38# mount --bind /sys sys root@xubuntu:/media/xubuntu/fb9186c7-9f3d-4a88-8d4b-9c8849e05a38# chroot ./ root@xubuntu:/# dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc root@xubuntu:/# update-grub -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
@Phillip Susi I think the bug occurred for me because i changed sda to another hdd (where windows is), so the entries from debconf did not match the new hdd and therefor grub did not install itself on sda, only on sdb (linux), with the new version. Don't you think this behavior is unwanted? Should a user have to know to rerun dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc when he/she changes the windows hdd, which has nothing to do with the Linux installation? Should not take the upgrade process take care of that? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
_dan_(dan-void).. That happens when grub is your boot loader manager. Even in old versions with multiple operational systems the grub in it self was not the problem. Usually when i install ubuntu and i thick the radio button to install with what ever existing operation system is on the hda or hdd or what ever the drive letter is needed. It is hard since MBR which is master boot record to code a boot loader config file two load clean when a kernel wants the first bit to load from a location where a other OS is. Best to have disk partion done by gparted where you have adequate disk space over 4 giga to make smooth install. Grub will address a hex prefix to read the first bit from that installation. How ever when you do the installation of 14.04 lts there is still things every one needs to do since the time when you downloaded and made a boot usb or dvd or cd and when canonical uploaded it out was passed it is almost impossible to be up to date distro. Everyone needs to add in more by update to latest KERNEL module etc. This site will get your system up to date after new install or if you migrated . http://www.unixmen.com/top-things-installing- ubuntu-14-0413-1013-0412-1012-04/ Use always the ubuntu - tweak janitor to keep your system clean to void bugs with new KERNEL. Hope all this helped everyone. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
If it is the issue of recovering of bad ' grub 2 ' then you can do this as in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajs9rO5upZA Getting your fingers used to fixing some simple admin tasks is part of getting to understand how Ubuntu works. I understand that in the beginning anything new can take time to learn. No one learns to drive a car or fly an air plane with out understanding a few fundamental things how things works. There is no auto - pilot that will not need to bet set before taking off the ground.. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/28/2014 10:53 AM, _dan_ wrote: Don't you think this behavior is unwanted? Should a user have to know to rerun dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc when he/she changes the windows hdd, which has nothing to do with the Linux installation? Should not take the upgrade process take care of that? If you change your boot drive, then yes, you need to run dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc to reinstall it properly. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJThh/oAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrw42EH/3KAwLIp67ThELKMgBNo2oBg EI+pT+sij6qetBjjgdrHXJDBJA17akD6JCAgWVvDUXg/FKMBnl0FNSt2359wL2wR /jf5khVu9BDCJhWTRlC8WClY9IvfC16c6ZGtZ4kvMDlr453STQzcsJhK3lYaWz8m NQkTYAb7He3//Y1AddklnhCFgX7CYuuyZ2tz23hKCRO3Dlp4pUyiOpEbe6GlM66i hCstTX20Zm8w9UeuFRmiVz1+mjBK8vNwCvf9+ovUNS92OGvRa+ZluHw3z4I92qWN hPSnzhHoi6TKVflXPlAFpJmiqIyHy9ha8Mf9kfwtJPIqb0S5j7hnCtncdsgjvgs= =hEZm -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
IMHO, that bug simply shows that dist-upgrade breaks the boot by blindly (re)installing GRUB whatever the boot setup is. In other words, dist-upgrade does not support enough boot configurations. A very simple and quick fix is: dist-upgrade should not install any bootloader. (why taking the risk of breaking the boot?) Plus, there are probably several sub-bugs (several types of unsupported configurations leading to the same error message) mixed in that report, would be easier to understand if each user was creating his own report, then devs could regroup them into categories. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
If you feel this bug is real, please provide a series of steps that will break GRUB consistently in any given system. Then you're allowed to set the status back to confirmed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
For me it was this: 1) Install ubuntu 13.04 2) Upgrade to 13.10 2) Attempt to upgrade to 14.04 = this bug, unusable system -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
When you are Migrateing - to 14.04 LTS from previous any linux or have multiboot systems do this. When you are updateing a new KERNEL in your new installation or after complete new installation. New KERNEL module will be loaded up to make your 14.04 LTS have latest drives etc. After update or after new installation when you migrated from previous installation 12.04 or 13.10 etc. You need to clean your OLD kernel module out from your system. Install Ubuntu - Tweak , Janitor to remove old Kernel and Old stuff that can give problems to load new Kernel to work when booting up your new installation, or when you updated new KERNEL. Often will clear lots of problems with 'grub ' or multiboot systems. http://ubuntu-tweak.com/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/07/kernel-entries-gone -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Psusi: There is nothing we can do to prevent or detect this kind of misconfiguration. Are you basing this on just one commenter's output in comment #13 in which case the configuration is in fact bad? Or have you seen more bad configurations that led to this issue. I'm just still not convinced there is nothing that can be done to fix this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
just a few thoughts (opinions ;) )... I have posted previously in the thread and followed it since then. I sympathise with both sides - both 'its a bug' and 'its the user' but on consideration IMHO neither are 100% right. My hardware is a Dell box with an Intel RAID controller set up with one volume mirroring a pair of 400(ish)Gb drives. As previously stated I installed 13.04 last year (LVM enabled) on a clean machine (no operating system) then this year upgraded to 13.10 successfully and then bricked the box with 14.04. At no time did I run boot-repair on the 13.x installs - if a boot loader is working I leave it well alone. So from an end user point of view there is a bug - a normal upgrade bricked my machine with no warning. Where that bug lies is kind of hard to pin down. I have since set up a Virtualbox to try to replicate the issue - unfortunately(!) the upgrade chain didn't fail. VirtualBox does not allow the emulation of hardware RAID controllers and I _think_ that this may be where the root cause of issue lies. It may be that the new version of grub installed by the system upgrade doesn't handle the LVM/HW RAID combination particularly well. As to not being able to detect the issue that caused the bricking of many machines - that is not strictly true is it? Us human end users are detecting the issue using standard tools available to the upgrade process. The big problem from a dev/support point of view is that there appears no auditable set of actions that can reproduce the issue - and I know that I am not about to tear down my now working 14.04 install, wipe the disks and start again from 13.04 just to prove (or not) a point - life is too short! Other end users are probably in the same position. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Adam, so far there have been two variations on the problem presented: 1) You are booting in bios mode with grub-pc, and grub- pc/install_devices is not set, which results in the MBR not being reinstalled on upgrade. There are systems on which this is a perfectly valid configuration ( i.e. if they are booting using another boot loader, or grub installed in another OS ), so we can't stop the upgrade for this. 2) You are booting in EFI mode with grub-efi, and have used boot-repair at some point which made a copy of grub.efi in the windows efi directory, and configured windows to chain load that. After upgrade, this copy is now old and broken because we don't know anything about it and it shouldn't be there. Grub-repair shouldn't be doing this. Fortunately this one is quite easy to work around: tell your efi bios to boot grub instead of windows first. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
When the noise stops, the melody sounds. So keep it easy peace. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Phillip, You know what causes this problem, so you can test for it before the upgrade starts. Wouldn't it be better to put an advisory comment up, warning the user that the system has a legitimate but possibly troublesome configuration? The comment could either fully explain how the trouble arises and what might happen or point to a web- based explanation. After all, leaving a user with a bricked system is not being considerate. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
All this noise is complicating the issue. It's really simple - there's a bug somewhere because as a user of Ubuntu 13.10 with no custom configs, no second OSs, and no extra hard drives, I followed the upgrade procedure that was presented to me and was left with an unusual system. I'm moving the bug to confirmed because I firmly believe it is my right and responsibility as a long time user of ubuntu and someone who wants to see it continuously improve. Phillip, no offense, but I'm pretty sure this can be detected and a user warned (if not completely fixed) before trying to upgrade. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: Opinion = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
The bug is in your configuration. As a developer, I have said there is nothing we can do on our end to mitigate this. As a user you need to avoid using grub-repair to get into an unsupported configuration. At this point your recourse is to take it up with the technical board. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Phillip you keep missing three things that have been said several times very clearly: - there are users that NEVER used boot-repair (or grub-repair as you call it) and experienced the issue anyway - there are situations where you CANNOT avoid using it as it's the only way to get Ubuntu to work - there obviously ARE things that can be done on the developers' end (I hope not your end) to mitigate this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Fwd: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Hi Ubuntu Technical Board, There is a lot of dissatisfaction about a problem that causes updates to Ubuntu 14.04 to fail to boot. Phillip Susi of Ubuntu feels this is not a bug whereas everyone who runs into feels that it is. We suspect it may affect many more users and be very detrimental to Ubuntu's reputation. Can we escalate this to you for your review? If you could publish your findings on the launchpad bug thread, it would inform the affected community and be much appreciated. Many thanks Phil Diacono Original Message Subject: [Bug 1289977] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 20:56:47 - From: Phillip Susi ps...@ubuntu.com Reply-To: Bug 1289977 1289...@bugs.launchpad.net To: satp...@gmail.com The bug is in your configuration. As a developer, I have said there is nothing we can do on our end to mitigate this. As a user you need to avoid using grub-repair to get into an unsupported configuration. At this point your recourse is to take it up with the technical board. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
