Adam,
Apologies, I had fixed the problem by the time you posted and I didn't realise 
outputs from those commands would have been helpful. Thanks for taking the time 
to try and sort the issue.

Philip,
I installed my system from scratch a few months ago with Saucy. I applied 
updates as they came up and upgraded to Trusty this morning when offered by the 
system using the built-in ugrader. Grub was installed and working fine on my 
disk before I upgraded. Post reboot, all I got was a grub shell and the 
reported error. I don't know what you're referring to about 
grub-pc/install_devices and how or why I would change it. I haven't changed 
disk configs since I installed.

If this isn't a defect in the software, I don't know what is. It may be
because of a few unlikely elements coming together. It may not actually
be a problem with the grub package so the bug should be refiled. But
there is certainly a problem somewhere - and it's a big one.

Dismissing people so vigourously when they report a bug is pretty
disappointing. It's certainly put me off ever trying to assist with a
bug again. I can fix the error myself but I've been encouraged by Ubuntu
devs I know to help with bug reporting so that the overall quality of
the software improves and new users don't have quite such a steep
learning curve and will see Linux as a real alternative.

But I obviously have a naive view of the community - the priority is to
close bugs saying why they shouldn't have been filed in the first place.

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  Ubuntu 14.04 Update breaks grub, resulting in "error: symbol
  'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"

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