Comment 12 for bug 1940749

Hello Chris Guiver, I ran the apport command and sent the data, I hope it
helped.

Sincerely,
Tim Brockway

On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 12:20 AM Chris Guiver <email address hidden>
wrote:

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> will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
>
> apport-collect 1940749
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1940749
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> Title:
> Hardinfo 'storage' output not showing devices
>
> Status in hardinfo package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> I installed Hardinfo on my Dell Inspiron 3501 running Ubuntu 20.04. I
> installed hardinfo:
>
> sudo apt-get install -y hardinfo
>
> When I select 'Storage' in the GUI nothing populates. The pane/window
> is totally blank. I have run hardinfo in the command line and I am
> receiving the following error:
>
> Warning: truncated a line (probably flags list) longer than 896 bytes
> while reading /proc/cpuinfo.
>
> Upon further inspection the 'Flags' field in /proc/cpuinfo is
> populated with a large quantity of strings and characters. Therefore
> this error is to be expected in my opinion.
>
> I just ran:
>
> sudo apt-get install --reinstall hardinfo
>
> This did not fix the issue with 'storage'. I have checked the other
> "sections" of the GUI and all other portions of the output seem to be
> functioning normally. I have also posted the link of the forum in
> which I first reported the issue to the askubuntu community, where I
> have detailed all the steps I have taken so far to attempt to fix the
> issue.
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1359220/hardinfo-doesnt-display-
> anything-in-the-storage-section?noredirect=1#comment2328347_1359220
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