*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1289977 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289977
Public bug reported:
Great!
I decided to finally upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04, and after the whole upgrade
process and the restart, the computer won't boot!!
I get a black screen with this error instead of the familiar boot menu:
error: symbol `grub_term_highlight_color' not found
grub rescue> _
Not only can't I boot ubuntu, I can't boot any other OS I had installed on the
computer (namely Windows 8).
I am reporting this from another computer.
How do I fix it now?
Do you test distribution upgrades before releasing them? Well, obviously
not enough. And _after_ releasing them, because it's been a f***ing
month or two since it was released.
At EVERY SINGLE UPGRADE I always get some huge problem that renders my system
completely unusable and needs some pretty radical fix. But this is the most
f***ed up and low level one ever. At the next upgrade I guess I'll get hardware
damage.
During the upgrade there was some crash: the "system problem detected" (or
whatever it is called) window popped up, informing of some crash related to
VirtualBox (and uslessly offering me the option to report it, just to later
tell me it couldn't be reported, as usual with third-party packages). I don't
know if that is related and I know that's a third party package, however
distribution-upgrade must be rocksolid and it can't brick a whole system just
because of a broken package (even assuming that's broken). It must either fix
the problem with the package, or offer the option to remove it, or roll back
the whole upgrade if it cannot be complete 100% safely.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.192.13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-31.46-generic 3.8.13.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-31-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.4
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Sat May 24 19:48:05 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-06-23 (1431 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: dist-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-08-10 (287 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Confirmed
** Tags: apport-bug dist-upgrade i386 raring
** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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CRITICAL: 13.10->14.04 upgrade BREAKS GRUP, renders computer
UNBOOTABLE
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