From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 28 04:08:41 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 3A96016A420 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 04:08:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maxim@macomnet.ru) Received: from mp2.macomnet.net (mp2.macomnet.net [195.128.64.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D47043D46 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 04:08:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maxim@macomnet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mp2.macomnet.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j9S48aWi022230; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:08:38 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from maxim@macomnet.ru) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:08:36 +0400 (MSD) From: Maxim Konovalov To: Carl Makin In-Reply-To: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> Message-ID: <20051028080622.U21585@mp2.macomnet.net> References: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 04:08:41 -0000 On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, 10:12+1000, Carl Makin wrote: > 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. Known problem. Were discussed severeal times in the past (e.g. subject "vnode_pager_putpages errors" in -stable). -- Maxim Konovalov