Comment 3 for bug 1610477

Briefly looked at this today. The text lshw output looks sane. memory_compare uses a json dump however, and get_make_and_model uses the output of lshw -C system

So when we get those we can run them through the parsers to see what the actual cause is.

For now, my initial guess is perhaps a locale setting putting some strange char in there, but that's not a very scientific guess, just a first impression.