doslit bug in v2.15 - need help plz
Draconix wrote on Jan 12, 2011
Hello !
I am kinda new to IRAF but I found this bug in doslit which I cannot solve despite reading the entire help forum. For reference, I am running IRAF v2.15alpha on Fedora 12 running on the school network. I was simply following the tutorial on longslit extraction and it all works fine until I execute the 'doslit' command. The images were created with the 'demos mkdoslit'. In short, I get this error after I input the object name in doslit.
ERROR: Attempt to access undefined local variable `image'.
"hselect (image, "ccdproc", yes) | scan (itype)"
line 133: doslit$sgetspec.cl (hidden task)
called as: `sgetspec (objects=demoobj1, arcs=, arctable=, standards=, obj=tmp$iraf1605a, arc=tmp$iraf1605b, std=tmp$iraf1605c)'
ERROR: No reference arcs
"resize, clean, splot, redo, update, quicklook, batch, listonly)"
line 54: doslit$doslit.cl
called as: `doslit ()'
I am mostly concerned about the first error which looks like bad coding but this is not a personal script or anything modified (to my knowledge). It does not matter which object filename I put, I always get the same error. I tried all types of image extension, unlearning all parameters (even with new mkiraf), changing working/image directories, setting the parameters with epar or on prompt. I always get the same error as soon as I enter the object name. However, it seems to work if I do not use doslit but execute the sub-commands (such as apfind,apextract) individually. To me, it looks like a bug in the doslit routine but I have not found anything on the web about it, so could it be specific to my system/network/iraf. Since I am working on the school network, I cannot re-install anything unless there would be a very good reason to ask the administrator to do so.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been stuck on this problem for days and I've looked everywhere for an answer. Please help me.
Thank You Very Much !!!
I am kinda new to IRAF but I found this bug in doslit which I cannot solve despite reading the entire help forum. For reference, I am running IRAF v2.15alpha on Fedora 12 running on the school network. I was simply following the tutorial on longslit extraction and it all works fine until I execute the 'doslit' command. The images were created with the 'demos mkdoslit'. In short, I get this error after I input the object name in doslit.
ERROR: Attempt to access undefined local variable `image'.
"hselect (image, "ccdproc", yes) | scan (itype)"
line 133: doslit$sgetspec.cl (hidden task)
called as: `sgetspec (objects=demoobj1, arcs=, arctable=, standards=, obj=tmp$iraf1605a, arc=tmp$iraf1605b, std=tmp$iraf1605c)'
ERROR: No reference arcs
"resize, clean, splot, redo, update, quicklook, batch, listonly)"
line 54: doslit$doslit.cl
called as: `doslit ()'
I am mostly concerned about the first error which looks like bad coding but this is not a personal script or anything modified (to my knowledge). It does not matter which object filename I put, I always get the same error. I tried all types of image extension, unlearning all parameters (even with new mkiraf), changing working/image directories, setting the parameters with epar or on prompt. I always get the same error as soon as I enter the object name. However, it seems to work if I do not use doslit but execute the sub-commands (such as apfind,apextract) individually. To me, it looks like a bug in the doslit routine but I have not found anything on the web about it, so could it be specific to my system/network/iraf. Since I am working on the school network, I cannot re-install anything unless there would be a very good reason to ask the administrator to do so.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been stuck on this problem for days and I've looked everywhere for an answer. Please help me.
Thank You Very Much !!!
Francisco Valdes wrote on Jan 12, 2011
Hello,
I created the sample data with mkdoslit and then ran doslit (in the kpnoslit package) without problem. I am not clear what "tutorial" you are following and how you are actually running the command. Could you please include the command you type to start the task, a listing of the parameters (lpar doslit), and maybe any output logfile or step by step description of what is happening up until the error? I would like to do exactly what you are doing to see if I can reproduce the error. It is likely a bug as you say but it may only happen if you are doing something unexpected.
Frank Valdes
I created the sample data with mkdoslit and then ran doslit (in the kpnoslit package) without problem. I am not clear what "tutorial" you are following and how you are actually running the command. Could you please include the command you type to start the task, a listing of the parameters (lpar doslit), and maybe any output logfile or step by step description of what is happening up until the error? I would like to do exactly what you are doing to see if I can reproduce the error. It is likely a bug as you say but it may only happen if you are doing something unexpected.
Frank Valdes
Draconix wrote on Jan 12, 2011
Thanks for trying to help. I tried doing the exact same thing on another system with iraf 2.12 and I had no problem at all. Therefore, I think it is due to a bad installation of iraf on the school network. If you ran doslit without problems on a 2.15alpha version, then it is clearly due to a bad installation on our part which I cannot do much about. As far as I'm concerned, I now do everything on the other system with iraf 2.12 since the network administrator seems too busy to re-install iraf. Thanks again for the help.
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