[gdal-dev] gdalinfo crashes or reports an error when reading a FITS file

[Eric Davies]

I've been trying to use the gdalinfo application to examine a number 
of FITS files that I've grabbed off the net. I've run into problems 
with both the precompiled/linked version of gdalinfo that comes with 
FWTOOLS.2.0.6, and with a copy I built myself from GDAL 1.7.2 source 
code and the cfitsio library. I'm running Linux (Fedora Core 13, 
Kernal 2.6) on a 32 bit Intel platform. It's not that I'm interested 
so much in the output of gdalinfo, but I wanted to verify that the 
underlying GDAL library could handle FITS before using it in my own 
application.

Most FITS files I tried caused gdalinfo to die with a segmentation 
fault. For example, the following files caused segmentation faults:
http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/nrao_data/tests/ftt4b/file013.fits
http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/nrao_data/samples/wcs/m82opt.fits

The remaining files I tried caused more graceful failures, 
represented by the message below.
ERROR 1: FITS file /opt/data/fits/ngc6503.fits does not have 2 or 3 
dimensions.
gdalinfo failed - unable to open '/opt/data/fits/ngc6503.fits'.
File from http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/nrao_data/samples/cubes/ngc6503.fits

I was able to view these FITS file using SAOImage DS9. indicating 
that the files were not corrupt.

Has anybody tested GDAL against FITS files recently?

Thank you,
Eric.

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Eric Davies, M.Sc.
Senior Programmer Analyst
Barrodale Computing Services Ltd.
1095 McKenzie Ave., Suite 418
Victoria BC V8P 2L5
Canada

Tel: (250) 704-4428
Web: http://www.barrodale.com
Email: eric at barrodale.com
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