Index: trunk/ippScripts/scripts/detrend_stack.pl
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--- trunk/ippScripts/scripts/detrend_stack.pl	(revision 8714)
+++ trunk/ippScripts/scripts/detrend_stack.pl	(revision 8715)
@@ -51,5 +51,6 @@
 	run(command => $command, verbose => 1);
     die "Unable to perform dettool -processed: $error_code\n" if not $success;
-    my $metadata = $mdcParser->parse(join "", @$stdout_buf); # Parsed metadata
+    my $metadata = $mdcParser->parse(join "", @$stdout_buf)
+        or die "unable to parse metadata config doc";
     $files = parse_md_list($metadata);
 }
@@ -85,5 +86,6 @@
     close $statsFile;
     my $mdcParser = PS::IPP::Metadata::Config->new;	# Parser for metadata config files
-    my $metadata = $mdcParser->parse(join "", @contents); # Metadata from the stats
+    my $metadata = $mdcParser->parse(join "", @contents)
+        or die "unable to parse metadata config doc";
     $stats = PS::IPP::Metadata::Stats->new(); # Stats parser
     $stats->parse($metadata) or die "Unable to find all values in statistics output.\n";