Index: trunk/psModules/src/objects/pmPSFtry.c
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--- trunk/psModules/src/objects/pmPSFtry.c	(revision 8133)
+++ trunk/psModules/src/objects/pmPSFtry.c	(revision 8436)
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
  *  @author EAM, IfA
  *
- *  @version $Revision: 1.12 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
- *  @date $Date: 2006-08-04 12:25:20 $
+ *  @version $Revision: 1.13 $ $Name: not supported by cvs2svn $
+ *  @date $Date: 2006-08-21 14:52:02 $
  *
  *  Copyright 2004 Maui High Performance Computing Center, University of Hawaii
@@ -261,4 +261,8 @@
     psPolynomial1D *poly = psPolynomial1DAlloc (PS_POLYNOMIAL_ORD, 1);
     poly = psVectorClipFitPolynomial1D (poly, stats, psfTry->mask, PSFTRY_MASK_ALL, psfTry->metric, NULL, r2rflux);
+    if (poly == NULL) {
+        psError(PS_ERR_UNKNOWN, false, "Failed to fit clipped poly");
+        return false;
+    }
     psLogMsg ("pmPSFtryMetric", 4, "fit stats: %f +/- %f\n", stats->sampleMedian, stats->sampleStdev);