Bug#459215: lspci command produces error: sysfs_scan: Couldn't parse entry name

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:08:13AM -0600, Richard Wohlstadter wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64
> Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
>
> I noticed after upgrading my kernel to the latest  
> linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 I could not longer run the lspci command and  
> it would give me the above error.  I rebooted back into  
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64 and it started working fine again.  Here is  
> the lspci output of my machine after I reverted back in case it helps:

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz