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

[Carl Makin]

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.