Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..
On 2010-04-05 00:19 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> With some Google help I figured out how to fix the missing
> /var/lib/dpkg/available problem and got lshw removed. Hopefully there's no
> remaining hidden damage on my server.
The lesson from this problem is that it is a bad idea to put /var on
ext2, and that a journaling filesystem should be used instead. I had
learned that the hard way, too.
> I don't think I'll ever be messing
> with lshw again. It could be that it expects something my old server
> doesn't have, and locks the machine when attempting to probe said
> non-existent device. Regardless, a production level (stable) information
> gathering tool should never hard lock a machine, no matter what, nor cause
> any kind of damage. I could understand installing a beta device driver
> doing this, but an information gathering tool causing a lockup?
You are shooting the messenger. lshw is a userspace program, not a
device driver. If running it locks up your system, this is almost
surely a bug in the kernel.
Sven
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