[Bug 1593233] Re: lshw crashes on the 16.04 release

[Paul White]

See this extract from the change log:

lshw (02.18-0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload with permission of the maintainer.
  * New upstream release.  Closes: #823639, #756921, #746616, #758550,
    #767023.
    - Refresh patches for unfortunate new upstream tarball layout.
    - debian/patches/fat-inspection.patch, debian/patches/smbios-noscan.patch:
      drop, fixed upstream.
    - Drop debian/patches/sparc.patch: no longer applies cleanly, and is
      incorrect (double header inclusion).
  * debian/patches/Avoid-crash-in-scan_dmi_sysfs-when-running-as-non-ro.patch:
    patch taken from Ubuntu to fix an upstream regression when running as
    non-root; thanks to dann frazier <dann.frazier at canonical.com>
  * debian/patches/fix-width-handling.patch: Fix regression in detecting
    platform width.

 -- Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org>  Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:42:04 -0700

It looks like the issue was fixed without any reference to this bug
report just a couple of months after the bug report was created.

Benjamin, I'll let you mark as "Fix released" if you're happy to close
your bug report.

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Title:
  lshw crashes on the 16.04 release

Status in lshw package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After the latest upgrade of lshw it stopped working. Exits with
  following crash output

  terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
    what():  std::bad_alloc
  Aborted (core dumped)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: lshw 02.17-1.1ubuntu3.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-24.43-generic 4.4.10
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Thu Jun 16 16:19:46 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-06-05 (11 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
  SourcePackage: lshw
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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