Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On 11 January 2018 at 20:23, david <david at daku.org> wrote: >> Folks >> >> I've been running lshw for years in both Centos 6 and Centos 7, yet just >> recently it started hanging. Neither a Control^C nor a "kill" of the >> process cured the hang; only a reboot. >> > > Is this just one system or a range of boxes? I just ran it on 2 > different ones running CentOS 7 and it worked fine there. If it is > just one particular hardware then look through the lshw man page and > try the versions of something like > > lshw -disable usb > > to see if it still happens. [It might require other tests also.] You could also try running it via strace - it might give you a clue as to where it is hanging : strace -f lshw James Pearson