OK well with more resources in use the behaviour I am getting is that
Image Viewer boots, shows a blank window, and then exits. So that's a
little bit like my comment #4.
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This file is identical in pixel dimensions to one that caused the bug
earlier. It is 1-bit with a size of 10332px x 4148px. It is LZW
compressed and contains an entirely white image.
*Opening this file with Image Viewer (eog) doesn't trigger the bug* with
the resources available on my system now,
OK the original trigger file is OK now and uses a similar amount of
memory to load.
I guess it would be more appropriate to say that there's nothing to stop
eog loading a file that's impracticably large, and a refinement would be
to do a rough calculation of the memory requirement and ask the user
Public bug reported:
The ImageViewer app (/usr/bin/eog) will go into a loop if a TIFF files
are opened. Any TIFF file can cause a loop even if less than 1MB in
size, so it seems that the program is encountering an internal issue
with the TIFF format.
The loop quickly consumes all free memory and
