--short will definitive not produce an error, cause dangerous characters won't be printed.
I've tested hwinfo in gnome-terminal, konsole, and piped to a file and opend with gvim: gnome-terminal: [....] P: /block/sr0 N: scd0 S: sr0 S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:02.5-scsi-0:0:0:0 S: cdrom S: dvd E: ID_CDROM=1 E: ID_CDROM_DVD=1 E: ID_CDROM_MRW=1 E: ID_CDROM_MRW_W=1 E: ID_CDROM_RAM=1 E: DEVTYPE=disk E: ID_VENDOR=TSSTcorp E: ID_MODEL=DVD-ROM_SH-D162C E: ID_REVISION=TS05 E: ID_SERIAL= E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E: ID_TYPE=␌␍ E: ID_BUS=⎽␌⎽␋ E: ID_PATH=⎻␌␋-0000:00:02.5-⎽␌⎽␋-0:0:0:0 E: GENERATED=1 P: /␌┌▒⎽⎽/␋┼⎻┤├/␋┼⎻┤├0/␊┴␊┼├0 N: ␋┼⎻┤├/␊┴␊┼├0 P: /␌┌▒⎽⎽/␋┼⎻┤├/␋┼⎻┤├0/└⎺┤⎽␊0 N: ␋┼⎻┤├/└⎺┤⎽␊0 P: /␌┌▒⎽⎽/␋┼⎻┤├/␋┼⎻┤├1/␊┴␊┼├1 N: ␋┼⎻┤├/␊┴␊┼├1 S: ␋┼⎻┤├/␉≤-⎻▒├/⎻┌▒├°⎺⎼└-␋8042-⎽␊⎼␋⎺-0-␊┴␊┼├-┐␉␍ E: ID_CLASS=┐␉␍ E: ID_SERIAL=┼⎺⎽␊⎼␋▒┌ E: ID_PATH=⎻┌▒├°⎺⎼└-␋8042-⎽␊⎼␋⎺-0 [...] konsole: [...] P: /block/sr0 N: scd0 S: sr0 S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:02.5-scsi-0:0:0:0 S: cdrom S: dvd E: ID_CDROM=1 E: ID_CDROM_DVD=1 E: ID_CDROM_MRW=1 E: ID_CDROM_MRW_W=1 E: ID_CDROM_RAM=1 E: DEVTYPE=disk E: ID_VENDOR=TSSTcorp E: ID_MODEL=DVD-ROM_SH-D162C E: ID_REVISION=TS05 E: ID_SERIAL= E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E: ID_TYPE=cd E: ID_BUS=scsi E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:02.5-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: GENERATED=1 P: /class/input/input0/event0 N: input/event0 P: /class/input/input0/mouse0 N: input/mouse0 P: /class/input/input1/event1 N: input/event1 S: input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd E: ID_CLASS=kbd E: ID_SERIAL=noserial E: ID_PATH=platform-i8042-serio-0 [...] gvim: [...] P: /block/sr0 N: scd0 S: sr0 S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:02.5-scsi-0:0:0:0 S: cdrom S: dvd E: ID_CDROM=1 E: ID_CDROM_DVD=1 E: ID_CDROM_MRW=1 E: ID_CDROM_MRW_W=1 E: ID_CDROM_RAM=1 E: DEVTYPE=disk E: ID_VENDOR=TSSTcorp E: ID_MODEL=DVD-ROM_SH-D162C E: ID_REVISION=TS05 E: ID_SERIAL= E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E: ID_TYPE=cd E: ID_BUS=scsi E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:02.5-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: GENERATED=1 P: /class/input/input0/event0 N: input/event0 P: /class/input/input0/mouse0 N: input/mouse0 P: /class/input/input1/event1 N: input/event1 S: input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd E: ID_CLASS=kbd E: ID_SERIAL=noserial E: ID_PATH=platform-i8042-serio-0 [...] But why is ID_SERIAL_SHORT binary?, at least it seems to be. Hence the terminal will hang up. Even if I start this on a CTRL+ALT+F2 Terminal the terminal is broken afterwards. -- hwinfo 13.35-1 output gibberish https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/149136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
