Maverick: running sudo lshw produces no results, may crash X

[Doug McMahon]

Binary package hint: lshw

running sudo lshw produces no results only this output
sudo lshw
[sudo] password for doug:
Killeduffer devices

Was actually trying to run sudo lshw -html > hardware.html on other machine, (a P4), a second attempt of just sudo lshw crashed X
On this machine (core2duo) see the same though it takes several attempts till X crashes

Am attaching ldmesg | tail -n 40 - last 39 lines are from the lshw attempt

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: lshw 02.14-1build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 1 00:43:39 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100705)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lshw

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

'Am attaching ldmesg"
that l was inadvertent, meant dmesg ....

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Further checking shows that lshw or lshw <whatever> works fine.
If it's not intended or needed to use sudo anymore then i'll mark as invalid

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Marking as dupe