gdal_translate crashes when requesting (bogus of course) "TILED=YES" and "BLOCKYSIZE=1" at the same time:
$ gdal_translate -co "TILED=YES" -co "BLOCKYSIZE=1" check.tif check_ts.tif
Input file size is 205, 111
ERROR 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Cannot handle zero number of tiles
0ERROR 1: _TIFFVSetField:check_ts.tif: Bad value 1 for "TileLength?" tag
ERROR 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Cannot handle zero number of tiles
ERROR 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Cannot handle zero number of tiles
Segmentation fault
Sample tiff attached. Backtrace below. Using GDAL 1.5.2 + SVN r14751.
shoofi@fooy:~$ gdb gdal_translate
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This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu"...
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) run -co "TILED=YES" -co "BLOCKYSIZE=1" check.tif check_ts.tif
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/gdal_translate -co "TILED=YES" -co "BLOCKYSIZE=1" check.tif check_ts.tif
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
warning: Lowest section in /usr/lib/libicudata.so.38 is .hash at 0000000000000120
[New Thread 0x2b47778cab30 (LWP 24623)]
Input file size is 205, 111
0ERROR 1: _TIFFVSetField:check_ts.tif: Bad value 1 for "TileLength" tag
ERROR 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Cannot handle zero number of tiles
ERROR 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Cannot handle zero number of tiles
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x2b47778cab30 (LWP 24623)]
GTiffCreateCopy (pszFilename=0x618560 "check_ts.tif", poSrcDS=0x619c00,
bStrict=<value optimized out>, papszOptions=0x618580,
pfnProgress=0x401f20 <GDALTermProgress@plt>, pProgressData=0x0)
at geotiff.cpp:4609
4609 hTIFF = (TIFF*) poDS->GetInternalHandle(NULL);
(gdb) bt
#0 GTiffCreateCopy (pszFilename=0x618560 "check_ts.tif", poSrcDS=0x619c00,
bStrict=<value optimized out>, papszOptions=0x618580,
pfnProgress=0x401f20 <GDALTermProgress@plt>, pProgressData=0x0)
at geotiff.cpp:4609
#1 0x00002b4770d109cc in GDALDriver::CreateCopy (this=0x60e0f0,
pszFilename=0x618560 "check_ts.tif", poSrcDS=0x619c00, bStrict=0,
papszOptions=0x618580, pfnProgress=0x401f20 <GDALTermProgress@plt>,
pProgressData=0x0) at gdaldriver.cpp:529
#2 0x00000000004039bf in ProxyMain (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=0x618510)
at gdal_translate.cpp:590
#3 0x00002b47751121c4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4 0x0000000000401f89 in _start ()
