Index: trunk/ippScripts/scripts/phase2.pl
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--- trunk/ippScripts/scripts/phase2.pl	(revision 8620)
+++ trunk/ippScripts/scripts/phase2.pl	(revision 8715)
@@ -55,5 +55,6 @@
     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";