SIGBUS on panda board (armel)

[LaMont Jones]

Binary package hint: lshw

On a panda board, any invocation of lshw dies with SIGBUS. dmesg has:
[40613.328338] Unhandled fault: external abort on non-linefetch (0x018) at 0x40155000

And "strace lshw" shows:
...
open("/dev/mem", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/proc/efi/systab", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mmap2(NULL, 32, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0xe0) = 0x400b8000
--- SIGBUS (Bus error) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGBUS +++
Bus error

cpuinfo has:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l)
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 2013.49

processor : 1
BogoMIPS : 1963.08

Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x1
CPU part : 0xc09
CPU revision : 2

Hardware : OMAP4430 Panda Board
Revision : 0020
Serial : 0000000000000000

[John Garland (johnnybg)]

lshw -disable dmi seems to work for me as a workaround

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[dann frazier (dannf)]

This was fixed in Ubuntu during the saucy/13.10 cycle.

lshw (02.16-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Closes: #525217
    - lshw: segfauls on armel (! /proc/efi/systab)
  * Closes: #707152
    - lshw can miscount cpus on devicetree platforms

 -- Ghe Rivero <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:10:58 -0400