Selecting grub entries at boot time results in "error: symbol 'grub_efi_find_last_device_path' not found"
1. Situation
1.1 I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on an OEM "Windows 8.1" laptop more than a year ago
1.2 Ubuntu installed grub to manage OS selection
1.2 The last automatic software update of Ubuntu (09.01.2016) updated grub (see https:/
1.3 Since then selecting grub menu items to start windows produces the following error message
"symbol 'grub_efi_
2. References
2.1 Output of
dpkg --list | grep grub
is
ii grub-common 2.02~beta2-
ii grub-efi 2.02~beta2-
ii grub-efi-amd64 2.02~beta2-
ii grub-efi-amd64-bin 2.02~beta2-
ii grub2-common 2.02~beta2-
2.2 Extract of /var/log/
Log started: 2016-01-09 13:13:08
(Reading database ...
...
(Reading database ... 100%
(Reading database ... 1300498 files and directories currently installed.)
...
Preparing to unpack .../grub-
Unpacking grub-efi (2.02~beta2-
Preparing to unpack .../grub-
Unpacking grub-efi-amd64 (2.02~beta2-
Preparing to unpack .../grub-
Unpacking grub-efi-amd64-bin (2.02~beta2-
Preparing to unpack .../grub2-
Unpacking grub2-common (2.02~beta2-
Preparing to unpack .../grub-
Unpacking grub-common (2.02~beta2-
...
Setting up grub-common (2.02~beta2-
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.
Setting up grub2-common (2.02~beta2-
Setting up grub-efi-amd64-bin (2.02~beta2-
Setting up grub-efi-amd64 (2.02~beta2-
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
installation beendet. Keine Fehler aufgetreten.
Grub-Konfigurat
Linux-Abbild gefunden: /boot/vmlinuz-
initrd-Abbild gefunden: /boot/initrd.
...
Linux-Abbild gefunden: /boot/vmlinuz-
initrd-Abbild gefunden: /boot/initrd.
Windows Boot Manager auf /dev/sda2@
Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration
erledigt
Setting up grub-efi (2.02~beta2-
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ...
Log ended: 2016-01-09 13:13:25
2.3 Output of
find /boot/efi -ls | grep x64.efi
is
14 1324 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1355736 Nov 2 2014 /boot/efi/
15 120 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 119296 Jan 9 13:13 /boot/efi/
350 0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Nov 2 2014 /boot/efi/
351 120 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 119296 Nov 2 2014 /boot/efi/
358 1580 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1617240 Jun 14 2014 /boot/efi/
359 120 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 119296 Nov 2 2014 /boot/efi/
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