From: Gordon@leaf.net.nz   
      
   On 2025-08-27, pinnerite  wrote:   
   > For the last 4 months I have relied on a 16 year old machine for   
   > communication.   
   >   
   > Having got my main machine to work, the old one collapsed or rather the   
   > hard drive did. I decided to restore it using another drive.   
   >   
   > Not so easy.   
   >   
   > I had trouble getting the machine to boot on a Mint 22.1 installation   
   > flash drive, then another, then a DVD and finally one of my oldest   
   > flash drives.   
   >   
   > But when I tried to update it in order to indstall Synaptic, I kept   
   > running into errors.   
   >   
   > I tried everythging I could find on the WWW but so far nothing has worked.   
   >   
   > The last attempt ended with this:   
   >   
   > dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:   
   >  files list file for package 'gnome-accessibility-themes' is missing final   
   newline   
   >   
   > $ find . -name gnome-accessibility-themes   
   > just returns to the prompt, so it is not a file.   
   >   
   As your were trying to boot off old hardware I would enter the possibility   
   that it was the USB socket which was not working.   
      
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