Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-05 Thread Javier Barroso
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > 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 less

Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Joachim wrote: > 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. Userspace programs run as root, such as lshw, have access to the entire machine memory, registers, and data b

Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Sven Joachim
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 e

Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 04:43, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Ron Johnson put forth on 4/4/2010 9:08 PM: > Your analogy, regardless of how cute, sarcastic, and applicable you believe > it to be doesn't fit.  If I run lshw, it will lock the system every time, > not only after adding salt to the machine for

Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 4/4/2010 9:08 PM: > On 2010-04-04 17:19, 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. I don't think I'll ever be

Re: NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-04 17:19, 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. I don't think I'll ever be messing with lshw again. It could be that it expects

NOW: Stay away from lshw! WAS: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
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. 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 lo