Strange Launchpad data appears on empty memory banks

[Byte Commander]

I ran `lshw -c memory` and got this output (info related to CPU cache and firmware removed):

$ sudo lshw -c memory
  *-memory
       description: System Memory
       physical id: c
       slot: System board or motherboard
       size: 12GiB
     *-bank:0
          description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0,6 ns)
          product: ACR16D3LS1KNG/8G
          vendor: Kingston
          physical id: 0
          serial: 16392411
          slot: ChannelA-DIMM0
          size: 8GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 1600MHz (0.6ns)
     *-bank:1
          description: Project-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>POT-Creation-Date: 2009-10-08 14:02+0200PO-Revision-Date: 2012-02-05 00:26+0000Last-Translator: Andi Chandler <Unknown>Language-Team: English (United Kingdom) <email address hidden>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2016-04-15 05:57+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 17995)Project-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>POT-Creation-Date: 2009-10-08 14:02+0200PO-Revision-Date: 2012-02-05 00:26+0000Last-Translator: Andi Chandler <Unknown>Language-Team: English (United Kingdom) <email address hidden>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2016-04-15 05:57+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 17995) [empty]
          physical id: 1
          slot: ChannelA-DIMM1
     *-bank:2
          description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0,6 ns)
          product: HMT451S6BFR8A-PB
          vendor: SK Hynix
          physical id: 2
          serial: 37441113
          slot: ChannelB-DIMM0
          size: 4GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 1600MHz (0.6ns)
     *-bank:3
          description: Project-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>POT-Creation-Date: 2009-10-08 14:02+0200PO-Revision-Date: 2012-02-05 00:26+0000Last-Translator: Andi Chandler <Unknown>Language-Team: English (United Kingdom) <email address hidden>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2016-04-15 05:57+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 17995)Project-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>POT-Creation-Date: 2009-10-08 14:02+0200PO-Revision-Date: 2012-02-05 00:26+0000Last-Translator: Andi Chandler <Unknown>Language-Team: English (United Kingdom) <email address hidden>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2016-04-15 05:57+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 17995) [empty]
          physical id: 3
          slot: ChannelB-DIMM1
  *-memory UNCLAIMED
       description: Memory controller
       product: Intel Corporation
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1f.2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
       version: 21
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz (30.3ns)
       capabilities: bus_master
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:a4224000-a4227fff

Please look at the information about bank 1 and bank 3 - these banks should be empty, but instead some weird data about Launchpad is displayed.

This is a bug and should not happen. Please examine this issue and fix it. Thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: lshw 02.17-1.1ubuntu3.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-28.47-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-28-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jun 30 20:57:10 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-04 (56 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
SourcePackage: lshw
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, gettext usually does that when trying to translate an empty string ... could you start the command under a C locale and copy the output?

[Byte Commander (bytecommander)]

@Sebastien Bacher of course, thanks for your response.

My default locale is:

$ echo $LANG
en_GB.UTF-8

And here's the output of lshw with C locale:

$ LANG=C sudo lshw -c memory
  [... info about CPU cache and firmware removed ...]
  *-memory
       description: System Memory
       physical id: c
       slot: System board or motherboard
       size: 12GiB
     *-bank:0
          description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0,6 ns)
          product: ACR16D3LS1KNG/8G
          vendor: Kingston
          physical id: 0
          serial: 16392411
          slot: ChannelA-DIMM0
          size: 8GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 1600MHz (0.6ns)
     *-bank:1
          description: [empty]
          physical id: 1
          slot: ChannelA-DIMM1
     *-bank:2
          description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0,6 ns)
          product: HMT451S6BFR8A-PB
          vendor: SK Hynix
          physical id: 2
          serial: 37441113
          slot: ChannelB-DIMM0
          size: 4GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 1600MHz (0.6ns)
     *-bank:3
          description: [empty]
          physical id: 3
          slot: ChannelB-DIMM1
  *-memory UNCLAIMED
       description: Memory controller
       product: Intel Corporation
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1f.2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
       version: 21
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz (30.3ns)
       capabilities: bus_master
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:a4224000-a4227fff

This time the output is correct. You should add a check and fall back to the untranslated C locale output instead of the generic Launchpad translation string.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thanks, it looks like a code bug then, if the string is empty it shouldn't try to translate it...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Benno Schulenberg (bennoschulenberg)]

Confirmed. Attached patch has been sent to the upstream maintainer. It fixes the bug for me. (Tested against lshw from git.)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for digging into the bug and submitting a patch upstream. Please let us know if it gets accepted, thanks!

[Lucas Ignacio Quequesana Lagos (l4cus)]

hi, i got a similar problem when run "sudo lshw -c memory"
here the output:

root@l4cus:/home/l4cus# lshw -c memory
  *-memory
       descripción: Memoria de sistema
       id físico: 40
       ranura: Placa de sistema o placa base
       tamaño: 8GiB
     *-bank:0
          descripción: DIMM DDR3 Síncrono 1333 MHz (0,8 ns)
          producto: 99U5471-028.A00LF
          fabricante: Kingston
          id físico: 0
          serie: 8B1C1937
          ranura: ChannelA-DIMM0
          tamaño: 4GiB
          anchura: 64 bits
          reloj: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
     *-bank:1
          descripción: DIMMProject-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>PO-Revision-Date: 2012-03-14 06:38+0000Last-Translator: Paco Molinero <email address hidden>Language-Team: Spanish <email address hidden>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2020-04-16 17:42+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 2e26c9bbd21cdca248baaea29aeffb920afcc32a) [vacío]
          producto: [Empty]
          fabricante: [Empty]
          id físico: 1
          serie: [Empty]
          ranura: ChannelA-DIMM1
     *-bank:2
          descripción: DIMM DDR3 Síncrono 1333 MHz (0,8 ns)
          producto: HMT351U6CFR8C-PB
          fabricante: Hynix/Hyundai
          id físico: 2
          serie: 0080BF95
          ranura: ChannelB-DIMM0
          tamaño: 4GiB
          anchura: 64 bits
          reloj: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
     *-bank:3
          descripción: DIMMProject-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>PO-Revision-Date: 2012-03-14 06:38+0000Last-Translator: Paco Molinero <email address hidden>Language-Team: Spanish <email address hidden>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2020-04-16 17:42+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 2e26c9bbd21cdca248baaea29aeffb920afcc32a) [vacío]
          producto: [Empty]
          fabricante: [Empty]
          id físico: 3
          serie: [Empty]
          ranura: ChannelB-DIMM1

i dont really know if it is the same...

[Tony Martin Berbel (wingarmac)]

I've simillar issue with sudo lshw -short | grep memory:
https://termbin.com/t11sg

I run on Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon 5.6.7 kernel 6.1.10-060110-generic