fatal error in case of HLT TPC cluster decoding problems

diff --git a/HLT/TPCLib/AliHLTTPCClusterAccessHLTOUT.cxx b/HLT/TPCLib/AliHLTTPCClusterAccessHLTOUT.cxx
index 281fec29bd6e6bddfce48b8eafc12b11cb0d72aa..0889a1b6dab719706f6fb10d774a2d98466d137b 100644 (file)
--- a/HLT/TPCLib/AliHLTTPCClusterAccessHLTOUT.cxx
+++ b/HLT/TPCLib/AliHLTTPCClusterAccessHLTOUT.cxx
@@ -277,7 +277,10 @@ int AliHLTTPCClusterAccessHLTOUT::ProcessClusters(const char* params)
                                            reinterpret_cast<AliHLTUInt8_t*>(desc.fPtr),
                                            desc.fSize,
                                            desc.fSpecification);
-      if (iResult>0) nExtractedClusters+=iResult;
+      if (iResult>=0) nExtractedClusters+=iResult;
+      else {
+       AliFatal(Form("processing of cluster block 0x%08x failed with error code %d", desc.fSpecification, iResult));
+      }
       unsigned index=slice*AliHLTTPCTransform::GetNumberOfPatches()+partition;
       if (index>=bHavePartitionData.size()) bHavePartitionData.resize(index, false);
       if (bHavePartitionData[index]) {