lshw crashes on the 16.04 release

[benjamin button]

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)

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

As I can see this bug on an Ubuntu installation I'm confirming the bug and removing "Xubuntu" from the bug title as all flavours are probably affected.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Byte Commander (bytecommander)]

Just reported the same bug, before I noticed that it's a duplicate of this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lshw/+bug/1594344

[benjamin button (canavaroski90)]

I haven't seen that happening again for a long time. I presume that there is a fix has been released for that and can be marked as won't fix. Who is responsible for these kinds of things? Should I mark it as won't fix?

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

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 <email address hidden>
  * debian/patches/fix-width-handling.patch: Fix regression in detecting
    platform width.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> 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.

[benjamin button (canavaroski90)]

Yep, thanks for that. Closing it right now.