Index: trunk/ppImage/src/ppImagePhotom.c
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--- trunk/ppImage/src/ppImagePhotom.c	(revision 20410)
+++ trunk/ppImage/src/ppImagePhotom.c	(revision 23688)
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
 
 // In this function, we perform the psphot analysis routine for the chip-mosaicked images
-bool ppImagePhotom (pmConfig *config, pmFPAview *view) {
+bool ppImagePhotom(psMetadata *stats, pmConfig *config, pmFPAview *view) {
 
     bool status;
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@
     pmReadout *readout;
 
-    psphotInit ();
+    psphotInit();
 
     // find or define a pmFPAfile PSPHOT.INPUT
@@ -37,14 +37,22 @@
             // run the actual photometry analysis
             if (!psphotReadout (config, view)) {
-                psError(psErrorCodeLast(), false, "failure in psphotReadout for chip %d, cell %d, readout %d\n", view->chip, view->cell, view->readout);
-                return false;
+                // This is likely a data quality issue
+                // XXX Split into multiple cases using error codes?
+                psErrorStackPrint(stderr, "Unable to perform photometry on image");
+                psWarning("Unable to perform photometry on image --- suspect bad data quality.");
+                if (stats && psMetadataLookupS32(NULL, stats, "QUALITY") == 0) {
+                    psMetadataAddS32(stats, PS_LIST_TAIL, "QUALITY", PS_META_REPLACE,
+                                     "Unable to perform photometry on image", psErrorCodeLast());
+                }
+                psErrorClear();
+                psphotFilesActivate(config, false);
             }
 
-	    // we want to save the MASK as modified by psphot, but not the data or weight
-	    // free the old mask and replace with a memory copy of the new mask
-	    pmReadout *oldReadout = pmFPAviewThisReadout (view, input->src);
-	    pmReadout *newReadout = pmFPAviewThisReadout (view, input->fpa);
-	    psFree (oldReadout->mask);
-	    oldReadout->mask = psMemIncrRefCounter (newReadout->mask);
+            // we want to save the MASK as modified by psphot, but not the data or weight
+            // free the old mask and replace with a memory copy of the new mask
+            pmReadout *oldReadout = pmFPAviewThisReadout(view, input->src);
+            pmReadout *newReadout = pmFPAviewThisReadout(view, input->fpa);
+            psFree (oldReadout->mask);
+            oldReadout->mask = psMemIncrRefCounter(newReadout->mask);
         }
     }