Comment 0 for bug 1471983

The HDD enclosure causing this is the 'ORICO 2.5 inch USB 3.0'
As seen here http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BH83LYG/

When the enclosure is plugged in, the lshw command runs fine as a plain user, but when run as root with either 'sudo su', 'sudo -i' or just 'sudo' (I tried all to be sure), lshw starts the normal process of scanning through the stuff it scans, but instead of outputting any information, it seg-faults with the message "Segmentation Fault".

When I unplug the HDD enclosure, lshw then runs fine as root.
This problem occurs both with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0, and has been tested on an AMD 64-bit machine running Xubuntu 14.04 (upgraded from 12.04).

I also tested on an older Intel 32-bit machine running Xubuntu 14.04 and got the same problem, except this time the message was different;
"
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::length_error'
  what(): basic_string::_S_create
"

I have pasted an extract from dmesg (from the AMD 64-bit machine) here:
http://pastebin.com/mTfJV04k
of which mentions lshw with some information about the USB device.

(this is my first ever bug report, so apologies in advanced if I made any mistakes)
(Package version lshw 02.16-2ubuntu1.2)