Comment 7 for bug 994533

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: cannot install ia32-libs on Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64

> But how was this inconsistancy possible?
> Any idea, what I did wrong?

I don't think this is due to anything you did wrong; most likely, there was simply a single-bit memory or disk error that broke the checksum of your conffile.

> Could I found this solution by myself?

Not easily, and for that I reassign the bug to dpkg rather than just closing it outright. However, this is a low priority issue since it's unlikely to affect many people who don't have failing hardware.