Error during masking in ellipse task

amit.durg wrote on Feb 22, 2018

I am trying to mask some nearby objects, during ellipse fitting, that time following error is occurring:

Killing IRAF task `ellipse'

PANIC in `/iraf/extern/stsci_iraf/stsdas/bin.linux/x_isophote.e': Write to IPC with no reader

Exception in Tkinter callback

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1413, in __call__

return self.func(*args)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/stsci/tools/editpar.py", line 1245, in execute

self.runTask()

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/stsci/tools/editpar.py", line 1754, in runTask

self._taskParsObj.run(mode='h', _save=1)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyraf/iraftask.py", line 355, in run

self._run(redirKW, specialKW)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyraf/iraftask.py", line 805, in _run

"\n"+str(value))

IrafError: Error running IRAF task ellipse

IRAF task terminated abnormally

ERROR (501, "segmentation violation")

my ds9 is 7.2 and PyRAF is 2.0, Python 2.7, OS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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Last post on Feb 22, 2018