lshw reports "Bus Error" or nothing on arm7l machine

[Mark W Wenning]

lshw reports "Bus Error" or nothing when run on an arm7 machine

ISEE IGEPv2 board:
OMAP 3520 (ARM Cortex A-8)
SDRAM 512 MB
Flash 512 MB
Ubuntu 12.05.5 LTS

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( log in)
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 2.6.37 armv7l)

 * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/

  System information as of Sun Jan 2 21:27:03 UTC 2000

  System load: 0.39 Processes: 75
  Usage of /: 27.9% of 1.80GB Users logged in: 1
  Memory usage: 22% IP address for eth0: 192.168.1.16
  Swap usage: 0%

  Graph this data and manage this system at:
    https://landscape.canonical.com/
Last login: Sun Jan 2 21:25:00 2000 from 192.168.1.13
root@igep00x0:~# uname -a
Linux igep00x0 2.6.37 #1 Thu Jun 5 19:12:04 CEST 2014 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
root@igep00x0:~# sudo lshw -v
Hardware Lister (lshw) - B.02.15
usage: lshw [-format] [-options ...]
       lshw -version

 -version print program version (B.02.15)

format can be
 -html output hardware tree as HTML
 -xml output hardware tree as XML
 -short output hardware paths
 -businfo output bus information

options can be
 -class CLASS only show a certain class of hardware
 -C CLASS same as '-class CLASS'
 -c CLASS same as '-class CLASS'
 -disable TEST disable a test (like pci, isapnp, cpuid, etc. )
 -enable TEST enable a test (like pci, isapnp, cpuid, etc. )
 -quiet don't display status
 -sanitize sanitize output (remove sensitive information like serial numbers, etc.)
 -numeric output numeric IDs (for PCI, USB, etc.)

root@igep00x0:~#
root@igep00x0:~# lshw -short
Bus error
root@igep00x0:~# lshw -html
Bus error
root@igep00x0:~# lshw -xml
Bus error
root@igep00x0:~# ^C
root@igep00x0:~#

Normally I would try Trusty, but I don't think it is supported.