From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 30 23:27:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868B916A41F for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:27:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from mail3out.barnet.com.au (mail3out.barnet.com.au [202.83.176.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF84E43D49 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:27:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by mail3out.barnet.com.au (Postfix, from userid 27) id BFEF3877CA7; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:27:19 +1100 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <436556D7000111838B0A54@BarNet> Received: from mail3-auth.barnet.com.au (mail3.barnet.com.au [202.83.176.16]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.barnet.com.au", Issuer "BarNet Root Certificate Authority" (verified OK)) by mail3.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB01877C51; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:27:19 +1100 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (edwin-3.int.barnet.com.au [10.10.12.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "edwin.adsl.barnet.com.au", Issuer "BarNet Root Certificate Authority" (not verified)) by mail3-auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE3B877C30; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:27:19 +1100 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8A9C0611F; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:27:17 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:27:17 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Carl Makin Message-ID: <20051030232717.GA1277@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Carl Makin , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:27:22 -0000 On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 10:12:26AM +1000, Carl Makin wrote: > 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. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/67919 Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/