Trouble configuring a new camera in 2.4

[jester@…]

Created an attachment (id=114)
LBCred config files and fits header dump

I tried to set up a new ippconfig directory for LBCred (on the LBT) using the Megacam format_mef.config as template. The camera layout is 4 chips, with 1 amp each, and each chip gets its own extension. I try to run psphot from the command line with a single frame (whose name is in firstimg.lis) and get the following error trace about "Unable to find MosaickedCell" which doesn't tell me anything (I gather it's somehow defined automatically...).

I'm attaching a tarfile with the camera configuration files and a header dump (primary header and a single chip's extension header). What's going on?

jester@aida77 ippreduce$ psphot -trace err 10 -list firstimg.lis firsttry

Camera LBC-RED, format MEF matches header.

pmChipFindCell (pmFPAUtils.c:52) : Unable to find cell MosaickedCell
processContents (pmFPAConstruct.c:294) : Unable to find cell MosaickedCell in chip --- ignored.
processChip (pmFPAConstruct.c:453) : Unable to set contents for chip from camera format.
addSource_FPA_CHIP (pmFPAConstruct.c:592) : Unable to process chip 0
addSource (pmFPAConstruct.c:1197) : Unable to add source.

Chip 0: 1 1

pmChipFindCell (pmFPAUtils.c:52) : Unable to find cell MosaickedCell
processContents (pmFPAConstruct.c:294) : Unable to find cell MosaickedCell in chip --- ignored.
processChip (pmFPAConstruct.c:453) : Unable to set contents for chip from camera format.
addSource_FPA_CHIP (pmFPAConstruct.c:592) : Unable to process chip 0
addSource (pmFPAConstruct.c:1197) : Unable to add source.

Aborting. Error stack:

-> pmChipFindCell (pmFPAUtils.c:52): I/O error

Unable to find cell MosaickedCell

-> processContents (pmFPAConstruct.c:294): specified location is unknown

Unable to find cell MosaickedCell in chip --- ignored.

-> processChip (pmFPAConstruct.c:453): unknown psLib error

Unable to set contents for chip from camera format.

-> addSource_FPA_CHIP (pmFPAConstruct.c:592): unknown psLib error

Unable to process chip 0

-> addSource (pmFPAConstruct.c:1197): unknown psLib error

Unable to add source.

Shouldn't ever get here --- CELL.BIASSEC should have been set above.

[jester@…]

LBCred config files and fits header dump

[jester@…]

A sample LBC frame is on the IfA cluster at
/data/ipp001.0/jester/LBT/lbcr.20080305.035753.fits

Thanks!

[Paul Price]

Hacked your config files a little, and inserted them into ippconfig. Ran psphot OK on the example image. I'm sure there are a few things yet to clean up, but you can do photometry.

See ~ipp/price/ippconfig/ for the files.

[jester@…]

Just to confirm that I can run the LBC frame with your new config files, but only ipp-pap on the IfA cluster and not with ipp-2.4-cr0 - there must have been incompatible changes in ippConfig between ipp-2.4-cr0 and ipp-pap since I still get the same errors in 2.4-cr0.

I.e. I'll wait for the next release (the real 2.4, or 2.5, whatever it's called) to confirm that it still works then. For what's currently called 2.4, it's not really fixed, but IPP has moved on since then anyway.