Hi everybody I have made a nice panorama with Panorama Factory V2.4 a windows tools, as there is nothing suitable for linux. The result looks like : #jhead externsteine-360.jpg File name : externsteine-360.jpg File size : 2456271 bytes File date : 2002:03:17 22:33:19 Resolution : 15593 x 2008 Jpeg process : Baseline Just a few pixels, not enough to crash gimp directly, but I loaded it crop about 95%, copied the selection into a new image, and... ... pressed save as and gimp stopped working. btw. celeron366, 384 MB Ram, about 5 gb place for gimp-cache all ext3fs disk, gimp-cache on a second disk. -- Hubertus Krogmann hk@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: PGP 6.5.1 mQENAzgvDQ4AAAEIAM0fEq1EzRjIYp+5xFGaiT3SXNCxntjf5gmyiBT967Z0Ki41 6Wmydggb2rDMeVg+widXde7XVEwOgxSPFoA6n2qYio14VCbq0xng4Xvyem64ydn/ N2aDnXnnYuu8JABSZi4y0GtPpBev54Nr0Q091ZhMvv0sKPE//wM0qGQ5O+e5NnT0 kE9wEE469j3JI92ywMRTiIqBxYkTO2gqNf5cWsCXcpPU8VdggB/aMAiJR93G+m2q d4tfv1d0PqHy46rO91MAxf0ajhWx5q4hQdOnJZinnb3w4EmIYEE4tbVAB7CL5phR nSLLSACA0/iMlLBJV3xQqdWv0CmZ8wTlUbG2b0EABRG0Hkh1YmVydHVzIEtyb2dt YW5uIDxoa0Boa2l0LmRlPg== =dDEC -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----