[Bug 1593233] Re: lshw crashes on the 16.04 release

[benjamin button]

I haven't seen that happening again for a long time. I presume that
there is a fix has been released for that and can be marked as won't
fix. Who is responsible for these kinds of things? Should I mark it as
won't fix?

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Title:
  lshw crashes on the 16.04 release

Status in lshw package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After the latest upgrade of lshw it stopped working. Exits with
  following crash output

  terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
    what():  std::bad_alloc
  Aborted (core dumped)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: lshw 02.17-1.1ubuntu3.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-24.43-generic 4.4.10
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Thu Jun 16 16:19:46 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-06-05 (11 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
  SourcePackage: lshw
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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