Comment 1 for bug 1840462

This seems to be a bug either in the "lshw -json" output or in the Python json module's ability to parse said output. In particular, there's been a change in the output with Eoan. Previous versions produce something like this:

  "capabilities" : {
    "smbios-2.7" : "SMBIOS version 2.7",
    "dmi-2.7" : "DMI version 2.7",
    "vsyscall32" : "32-bit processes"
  },
  "children" : [
    {
      "id" : "core",
      "class" : "bus",

In Eoan, the equivalent segment looks like this:

  "capabilities" : {
    "smbios-2.7" : "SMBIOS version 2.7",
    "dmi-2.7" : "DMI version 2.7",
    "smp" : "Symmetric Multi-Processing",
    "vsyscall32" : "32-bit processes"
  } {
      "id" : "core",
      "class" : "bus",

I'm making inquiries to try to determine whether the new JSON output is valid or not, which will determine whether to file a bug against lshw or the Python json library.