Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

From: Carl Makin (carl_at_xena.IPAustralia.gov.au)
Date: 10/28/05

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    Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:12:26 +1000
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

    Morning All,

    I've been playing with some GIS software and 32Mb TIFF images. Running
    ImageMagick's "convert" utility under my normal user login to convert
    the image to gif or jpeg blows away the system every time. No panic
    seen on the console and no core dump found, the system just quietly
    reboots. Upon reboot /var is full and corrupt and takes ages for the
    background fsck to fix it so I normally boot into single user mode and
    do it myself.

    Is anyone else seeing this? I can happily supply an image that causes
    the problem if someone wants to try it.

    Carl.

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