I can confirm this with two different machines; i3 530 with Intel H55 and HP dv5139eu laptop. Both seem to crash when running 2.6.35 kernel and lshw. After downgrading to 2.6.32 kernel (latest on Lucid), lshw seems to work normally.
** Changed in: lshw (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- lshw causes laptop to freeze up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/614008 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs