Public bug reported: Installed Ubuntu 20.04 focal beta (I think the same applies to Eoan as well) lshw -version output is empty:
ubuntu@ob104:~$ sudo lshw -version ubuntu@ob104:~$ sudo apt-cache show lshw Package: lshw Architecture: amd64 Version: 02.18.85-0.3ubuntu2 Priority: standard Section: utils Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Original-Maintainer: Ghe Rivero <[email protected]> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 857 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2) Recommends: pciutils, usbutils Filename: pool/main/l/lshw/lshw_02.18.85-0.3ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 270368 MD5sum: b4a3a32f681241f9d6bd200d1b6f0be0 SHA1: ea0e3a645884f9cd65ea97c7fbf64cf308eb465c SHA256: 2cfc5cee2f59f1e90facfca904d02dcab8b20e162a62fe9fac036c109a3e9953 Homepage: https://github.com/lyonel/lshw Description-en: information about hardware configuration A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 systems, on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work) and AMD64. . Information can be output in plain text, HTML or XML. Description-md5: 5bbbb48f52cc6707ed44dbb6942d387b Task: standard ubuntu@ob104:~$ which lshw /usr/bin/lshw ubuntu@ob104:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/lshw lshw: /usr/bin/lshw ** Affects: lshw (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1874237 Title: "lshw -version" returns empty string on focal To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lshw/+bug/1874237/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
