[OT Security PSA] Shellshock: Update your bash, now!

[eles via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 11:12:12 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 07:43:54 UTC, eles wrote:
>> update-manager -d
>>
>> It works.
>
> Does it perform package upgrade? The comments are rather scary:
> ---
> Hi, I have installed Linux mint 15 with Mint4Win as Dual boot 
> with Windows 7.
> Then upgraded it to Mint 16 and it was running fine.
> But when I upgrade to Mint 17 (Qiana), after restarting the 
> partition loop0 (or loopback0 or something like that) fails to 
> load.
> It shows an error like, Press I to ignore, S to skip or M for 
> manual recovery.
>
> Please tell me a way to fix this.
> Or let me know if it is not possible.
> ---
>
> Looks like my case. Are fstab and mtab replaced during upgrade?

You should drop Mint, they have a quite disruptive policy, but 
they are kinda unique in the Linux world. Better choice in the 
Mint world would be LMDE:

http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

You simply made the wrong choice in the beginning.