Strange server crash on woody with gallery/php

[Urs Schroffeneger]

Hello,

i'm maintaining a web-server through the web on a plain debian woody 
box. I wanted to use the gallery program, to create a photo gallery. 
Because I like it's features and I'm using it on other a unstable debian 
box,  I wanted the 1.4.3 version, so I downloaded the package for 
testing by ftp and installed it on the box via dpkg -i. (I don't know if 
it is the best way to do so, but it worked, apt-pinning should be 
better, but I didn't get it by now... )

The gallery seems to work, I can login, upload images on after the 
other, add comments and everything.
The problem comes when I try to upload a bunch of images. To do so, I 
uploaded all my images to the server, and then gave the path to the 
directory to the program.
Gallery begins by copying the images to a temp directory, and then does 
some rescaling via convert and netpnm. And there comes the problem: at 
some point on the process, the server turns off. It doesn't shut down, 
it turns off. Nothing in the logs:
syslog has some " -- MARK -- " and then "syslog restart"

it doesn't seem to be the rescaling program, the bug comes some times 
before rescaling, some times after. Gallery has some debugging messages, 
so I tried some of the shell comands run to rescale, and had no problems 
doing so. Only thing I know is that the process is a little processor 
and disk intensive.

I have only access to the machine by ssh and web interface, so it's not 
really easy to test and restart the machine after a crash :-D
To day, I tried the procedure while phoning somebody on site: The server 
seems to shut off in half a second, without error messages. We did it 
while looking on the console with ctrl-alt-F1 to see if the kernel 
prints something to the console, but nothing appears, the screens only 
turns black.

I don't know what this could be, the machine is new, and it's kinda 
scary to put a machine with this kind of bug on the net.

Any clues, things to try ? I tried with the gallery forums, but I can't 
write there, I'm not getting my register confirmation with my password. 
I'm now looking into apt-pinning to try this one out whith another 
version of php, I read that php 4.1.2 had some bugs.

thanks

urs

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