Comment 1 for bug 1699490

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-06-21 08:39 EDT-------
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---Problem Description---

Ubuntu 16.04.03: hwinfo --save-config option fails to save the configuration.

----Steps to Reproduce---

1. Install hwinfo package.
2. Try to save the configuration using below command.

hwinfo --<HARDWARE_ITEM> --save-config UID

Logs:
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root@ltc-boston27:/var/lib/lsvpd# hwinfo --disk --save-config R7kM.Xm7p8wTSTND
21: SCSI 20.0: 10600 Disk
[Created at block.245]
Unique ID: R7kM.Xm7p8wTSTND
Parent ID: pbmW.zwwfKgs28SB
SysFS ID: /class/block/sda
SysFS BusID: 0:2:0:0
SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0003:00/0003:00:00.0/0003:01:00.0/host0/target0:2:0/0:2:0:0
Hardware Class: disk
Model: "SEAGATE ST2000NM0045"
Vendor: "SEAGATE"
Device: "ST2000NM0045"
Revision: "N003"
Serial ID: "ZC20J3TZ0000R72729UW"
Driver: "aacraid", "sd"
Driver Modules: "aacraid"
Device File: /dev/sda (/dev/sg0)
Device Files: /dev/sda, /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-35000c50086b03aaf, /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x5000c50086b03aaf, /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0003:01:00.0-scsi-0:2:0:0
Device Number: block 8:0-8:15 (char 21:0)
Geometry (Logical): CHS 243201/255/63
Size: 3907029168 sectors a 512 bytes
Capacity: 1863 GB (2000398934016 bytes)
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #15 (Serial Attached SCSI controller)

Save Configuration:
R7kM.Xm7p8wTSTND: failed
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Patch is available as a pull request:
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I still feel that the ideal thing would have been that the patch was made a part of the hwinfo package to have the directories created automatically when the package is installed instead of requesting the distro-package maintainers to create the dirs. each time a fix is released.

For this I re-approached the issue with a patch and pull request on hwinfo github repo.:
https://github.com/openSUSE/hwinfo/pull/52

Hoping for the fix to be merged upstream soon.

~
Chandni