lshw segfaults while checking SCSI subsystem on Dell Precision 5510
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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lshw (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Running lshw on a Dell Precision 5510 causes it to segfault unless I use `lshw -disable SCSI`.
Release:
root@cat:~# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Release: 14.04
root@cat:~# gdb `which lshw`
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/lshw...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/lshw
SCSI
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
__memcpy_
116 ../sysdeps/
(gdb) bt
#0 __memcpy_
#1 0x00007ffff7b919be in char* std::string:
#2 0x00007ffff7b91a2d in std::basic_
#3 0x00000000004576d6 in ?? ()
#4 0x0000000000458dcd in ?? ()
#5 0x000000000045d494 in ?? ()
#6 0x0000000000417486 in ?? ()
#7 0x0000000000403fc5 in ?? ()
#8 0x00007ffff751cec5 in __libc_start_main (main=0x403ae0, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffff
fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=
#9 0x00000000004049ff in ?? ()
This is causing issues with other drivers that use lshw to report system information.
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.