Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:25:12 +0400 (MSD) From: Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru> To: Carl Makin <carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user. Message-ID: <20051028161732.F9865@is.park.rambler.ru> In-Reply-To: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> References: <43616CEA.9020600@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au>
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, 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. > > Is anyone else seeing this? I can happily supply an image that causes the > problem if someone wants to try it. It's known problem: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/67919 And there is bandaid patch by Uwe Doering that at least allows to keep system alive: http://freebsd.rambler.ru/bsdmail/freebsd-stable_2004/msg03698.html I'd applied this patch year ago on one of our production servers, and the bug was gone. However, no one wants to commit this patch. Igor Sysoev http://sysoev.ru/en/
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