DADA2 in R (return code -11)

Dear all,
I am getting the following error
Plugin error from dada2:

An error was encountered while running DADA2 in R (return code -11), please inspect stdout and stderr to learn more.

I am using the following code

qiime dada2 denoise-paired
--i-demultiplexed-seqs paired-end-demux-trimmed.qza
--p-trunc-len-f 0
--p-trunc-len-r 0
--p-trim-left-f 200
--p-trim-left-r 200
--o-representative-sequences rep-seqs-dada2.qza
--o-table table-dada2.qza
--o-denoising-stats stats-dada2.qza

I also attach my input artifact for visualisation

Any advice on how to set the parameters to get a successful processing?

.demux.qzv (307.0 KB)

Hi @rotifer - please rerun the command with the --verbose flag and provide the complete output here - without that we cannot begin to understand the nature of the error. Thanks!

(qiime2-2020.2) Ulis-MacBook-Pro:Tovel16S uli$ qiime dada2 denoise-paired \

--i-demultiplexed-seqs paired-end-demux-trimmed.qza
--p-trunc-len-f 0
--p-trunc-len-r 0
--p-trim-left-f 220
--p-trim-left-r 200
--o-representative-sequences rep-seqs-dada2.qza
--o-table table-dada2.qza
--o-denoising-stats stats-dada2.qza
--verbose
Running external command line application(s). This may print messages to stdout and/or stderr.
The command(s) being run are below. These commands cannot be manually re-run as they will depend on temporary files that no longer exist.

Command: run_dada_paired.R /var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmpa4hb8rt2/forward /var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmpa4hb8rt2/reverse /var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmpa4hb8rt2/output.tsv.biom /var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmpa4hb8rt2/track.tsv /var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmpa4hb8rt2/filt_f /var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmpa4hb8rt2/filt_r 0 0 220 200 2.0 2.0 2 consensus 1.0 1 1000000

R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Loading required package: Rcpp

*** caught segfault ***
address 0x18, cause 'memory not mapped'

Traceback:
1: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...)
2: library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib)
3: loadNamespace(package, lib.loc)
4: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
5: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
6: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
7: tryCatch({ attr(package, "LibPath") <- which.lib.loc ns <- loadNamespace(package, lib.loc) env <- attachNamespace(ns, pos = pos, deps, exclude, include.only)}, error = function(e) { P <- if (!is.null(cc <- conditionCall(e))) paste(" in", deparse(cc)[1L]) else "" msg <- gettextf("package or namespace load failed for %s%s:\n %s", sQuote(package), P, conditionMessage(e)) if (logical.return) message(paste("Error:", msg), domain = NA) else stop(msg, call. = FALSE, domain = NA)})
8: library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc, quietly = quietly)
9: .getRequiredPackages2(pkgInfo, quietly = quietly)
10: library(dada2)
11: withCallingHandlers(expr, warning = function(w) invokeRestart("muffleWarning"))
12: suppressWarnings(library(dada2))
An irrecoverable exception occurred. R is aborting now ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/q2_dada2/_denoise.py", line 257, in denoise_paired
run_commands([cmd])
File "/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/q2_dada2/_denoise.py", line 36, in run_commands
subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)
File "/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 418, in run
output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['run_dada_paired.R', '/var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmpa4hb8rt2/forward', '/var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmpa4hb8rt2/reverse', '/var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmpa4hb8rt2/output.tsv.biom', '/var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmpa4hb8rt2/track.tsv', '/var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmpa4hb8rt2/filt_f', '/var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmpa4hb8rt2/filt_r', '0', '0', '220', '200', '2.0', '2.0', '2', 'consensus', '1.0', '1', '1000000']' died with <Signals.SIGSEGV: 11>.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/q2cli/commands.py", line 328, in call
results = action(**arguments)
File "</Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/decorator.py:decorator-gen-475>", line 2, in denoise_paired
File "/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/qiime2/sdk/action.py", line 245, in bound_callable
output_types, provenance)
File "/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/qiime2/sdk/action.py", line 390, in callable_executor
output_views = self._callable(**view_args)
File "/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/q2_dada2/_denoise.py", line 272, in denoise_paired
" and stderr to learn more." % e.returncode)
Exception: An error was encountered while running DADA2 in R (return code -11), please inspect stdout and stderr to learn more.

Plugin error from dada2:

An error was encountered while running DADA2 in R (return code -11), please inspect stdout and stderr to learn more.

See above for debug info.

1 Like

Thanks @rotifer.

The error is coming up because you appear to be running a different deployment of R than the one shipped with QIIME 2:

This usually happens when your local environment is configured to load R from other sources, before your QIIME 2 environment.

A few commands to debug:

# Command 1
cat ~/.Rprofile # this command might fail, if you don't have an Rprofile. That's fine

# Command 2
# first activate your QIIME 2 environment, then:
R -e '.libPaths()'

# Command 3
# first activate your QIIME 2 environment, then:
env

Please run all three commands and provide the results here. Also, you should start to think about reaching out to your computer's sysadmin, these kinds of configurations are often defined by the admins that control these machines, so you might want to check in with them, too.

three blocks for the three commands; by the way, I am the administrator of this Mac

Ulis-MacBook-Pro:Tovel16S uli$ cat ~/.Rprofile 

options(repos=c(getOption('repos'),
    CRAN='https://cloud.r-project.org',
    USGS='https://owi.usgs.gov/R'))

Ulis-MacBook-Pro:Tovel16S uli$ 

Ulis-MacBook-Pro:Tovel16S uli$ conda activate qiime2-2020.2
(qiime2-2020.2) Ulis-MacBook-Pro:Tovel16S uli$ R -e '.libPaths()'

R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02) -- "Feather Spray"
Copyright (C) 2018 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

.libPaths()
[1] "/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/R/library"

(qiime2-2020.2) Ulis-MacBook-Pro:Tovel16S uli$ env
AS=/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0-as
LDFLAGS=-Wl,-pie -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs -Wl,-rpath,/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib -L/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib
AR=/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0-ar
RSTUDIO_WHICH_R=/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/bin/R
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JAVA_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/server
TERM_PROGRAM=vscode
HOST=x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0
TERM=xterm-256color
SHELL=/bin/bash
NM=/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0-nm
PYTHONNOUSERSITE=/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python*/site-packages/
CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -mmacosx-version-min=10.9 -isystem /Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/include
TMPDIR=/var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/
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CONDA_PROMPT_MODIFIER=(qiime2-2020.2) 
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CONDA_BUILD_SYSROOT=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk
STRINGS=/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0-strings
_CE_CONDA=
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ARBHOME_BACKUP=
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DEBUG_CXXFLAGS=-march=core2 -mtune=haswell -mssse3 -ftree-vectorize -fPIC -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong -O2 -pipe -stdlib=libc++ -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -std=c++14 -fmessage-length=0 -Og -g -Wall -Wextra -isystem /Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/include
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F90=/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0-gfortran
PWD=/Users/uli/Documents/Qiime/Tovel16S
JAVA_HOME=/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2
STRIP=/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0-strip
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JAVA_LD_LIBRARY_PATH_BACKUP=
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R_LIBS_USER=/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/R/library/
FFLAGS=-march=nocona -mtune=core2 -ftree-vectorize -fPIC -fstack-protector -O2 -pipe
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(qiime2-2020.2) Ulis-MacBook-Pro:Tovel16S uli$

Well, everything looks fine there - maybe you accidentally activated multiple conda environments within each other again? I recall we had some issues with that in the past, and would certainly explain the problem reported here. According to your most recent post though, your env looks clean, and should be set. Give it another shot (and pay close attention to the commands you are running), and let us know!

:qiime2:

Hi,
first, many thanks for taking your time to have a look at it
second, it does not work (this is a fresh qiime2-2020.2 environment)
(qiime2-2020.2) Ulis-MacBook-Pro:Tovel16S uli$ qiime dada2 denoise-paired \

--i-demultiplexed-seqs paired-end-demux-trimmed.qza
--p-trunc-len-f 0
--p-trunc-len-r 0
--p-trim-left-f 220
--p-trim-left-r 200
--o-representative-sequences rep-seqs-dada2.qza
--o-table table-dada2.qza
--o-denoising-stats stats-dada2.qza
--verbose
Running external command line application(s). This may print messages to stdout and/or stderr.
The command(s) being run are below. These commands cannot be manually re-run as they will depend on temporary files that no longer exist.

Command: run_dada_paired.R /var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmplv_1bund/forward /var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmplv_1bund/reverse /var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmplv_1bund/output.tsv.biom /var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmplv_1bund/track.tsv /var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmplv_1bund/filt_f /var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmplv_1bund/filt_r 0 0 220 200 2.0 2.0 2 consensus 1.0 1 1000000

R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Loading required package: Rcpp

*** caught segfault ***
address 0x18, cause 'memory not mapped'

Traceback:
1: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...)
2: library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib)
3: loadNamespace(package, lib.loc)
4: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
5: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
6: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
7: tryCatch({ attr(package, "LibPath") <- which.lib.loc ns <- loadNamespace(package, lib.loc) env <- attachNamespace(ns, pos = pos, deps, exclude, include.only)}, error = function(e) { P <- if (!is.null(cc <- conditionCall(e))) paste(" in", deparse(cc)[1L]) else "" msg <- gettextf("package or namespace load failed for %s%s:\n %s", sQuote(package), P, conditionMessage(e)) if (logical.return) message(paste("Error:", msg), domain = NA) else stop(msg, call. = FALSE, domain = NA)})
8: library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc, quietly = quietly)
9: .getRequiredPackages2(pkgInfo, quietly = quietly)
10: library(dada2)
11: withCallingHandlers(expr, warning = function(w) invokeRestart("muffleWarning"))
12: suppressWarnings(library(dada2))
An irrecoverable exception occurred. R is aborting now ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/q2_dada2/_denoise.py", line 257, in denoise_paired
run_commands([cmd])
File "/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/q2_dada2/_denoise.py", line 36, in run_commands
subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)
File "/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 418, in run
output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['run_dada_paired.R', '/var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmplv_1bund/forward', '/var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmplv_1bund/reverse', '/var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmplv_1bund/output.tsv.biom', '/var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmplv_1bund/track.tsv', '/var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmplv_1bund/filt_f', '/var/folders/jz/41p1rmwj7gj7g_lpwwsm5vy40000gn/T/tmplv_1bund/filt_r', '0', '0', '220', '200', '2.0', '2.0', '2', 'consensus', '1.0', '1', '1000000']' died with <Signals.SIGSEGV: 11>.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/q2cli/commands.py", line 328, in call
results = action(**arguments)
File "</Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/decorator.py:decorator-gen-475>", line 2, in denoise_paired
File "/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/qiime2/sdk/action.py", line 245, in bound_callable
output_types, provenance)
File "/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/qiime2/sdk/action.py", line 390, in callable_executor
output_views = self._callable(**view_args)
File "/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/q2_dada2/_denoise.py", line 272, in denoise_paired
" and stderr to learn more." % e.returncode)
Exception: An error was encountered while running DADA2 in R (return code -11), please inspect stdout and stderr to learn more.

Plugin error from dada2:

An error was encountered while running DADA2 in R (return code -11), please inspect stdout and stderr to learn more.

See above for debug info.

Actually, I think (maybe) to know what is going on: dada2 is unable to merge my forward and reversed reads; maybe return code -11 is pointing to this. I executed dada2 in R and it is not able to merge my sequences; I do not know why because it looks fine, but evidence is against me.
many thanks for your help,
Ulrike

No, I don't think so - the error message is pretty clear:

You'll notice that your version of R bounced back to 3.6.1, instead of the 3.5.1 that is shipped with QIIME 2 and verified by you above. I think you might be neglecting to share some "step" or portion of your process with us - the env is being mutated somehow, but there isn't anything we can do unless you help us out with some more details. Have you attempted to modify QIIME 2 source in your installation? Do you run some kind of custom activation script? If so, maybe there is a bug or faulty logic in it? Are you sure you're not activating more than one conda env at a time? Another thought - your $PATH env var might not be set up in the right order for miniconda.

I would be very happy if we/you could solve this.
What I am doing:

  • opening visual studio code: open new terminal
  • there I type: conda activate qiime2-2020.2
  • I go to my folder of interest: cd Documents/Qiime/Tovel16S
  • I check my file: qiime tools view demux.qzv
  • q for quitting the view
  • then I execute the command:
    qiime dada2 denoise-paired
    --i-demultiplexed-seqs paired-end-demux-trimmed.qza
    --p-trunc-len-f 0
    --p-trunc-len-r 0
    --p-trim-left-f 220
    --p-trim-left-r 200
    --o-representative-sequences rep-seqs-dada2.qza
    --o-table table-dada2.qza
    --o-denoising-stats stats-dada2.qza
    --verbose
    & the output is the one I sent you.

My miniconda folder looks like the uploaded screenshot

Have you attempted to modify QIIME 2 source in your installation? -> I have no idea what you mean with this: as you may remember I had some trouble installing songbird, so I installed and removed qiime several times (conda env remove -n qiime2-2020.2). Should I remove and re-install again?
best regards,
Ulrike

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Hmm, looks like something isn't quite adding up here, is it?

Let's try this, please run the following and provide all the output as run:

# start with conda in a "base" state
conda deactivate

which R

conda activate qiime2-2020.2

which R

R -e '.libPaths()'

qiime dada2 denoise-paired \
  --i-demultiplexed-seqs paired-end-demux-trimmed.qza \
  --p-trunc-len-f 0 \
  --p-trunc-len-r 0 \
  --p-trim-left-f 220 \
  --p-trim-left-r 200 \
  --o-representative-sequences rep-seqs-dada2.qza \
  --o-table table-dada2.qza \
  --o-denoising-stats stats-dada2.qza \
  --verbose

Go ahead and give that a shot!

:qiime2:

PS:

I was just wondering if you edited the internal sourcecode of QIIME 2. It happens surprisingly often, and almost always ends with sadness and heartache.

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here my output:
(base) Ulis-MBP:~ uli$ conda deactivate
Ulis-MBP:~ uli$
Ulis-MBP:~ uli$ which R
/usr/local/bin/R
Ulis-MBP:~ uli$ conda activate qiime2-2020.2
(qiime2-2020.2) Ulis-MBP:~ uli$ which R
/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/bin/R
(qiime2-2020.2) Ulis-MBP:~ uli$ R -e '.libPaths()'

R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02) -- "Feather Spray"
Copyright (C) 2018 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

Natural language support but running in an English locale

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

.libPaths()
[1] "/Users/uli/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/R/library"

(qiime2-2020.2) Ulis-MBP:~ uli$ cd Documents/Qiime/Tovel16S
(qiime2-2020.2) Ulis-MBP:Tovel16S uli$ qiime tools view demux.qzv
Press the 'q' key, Control-C, or Control-D to quit. This view may no longer be accessible or work correctly after quitting.
(qiime2-2020.2) Ulis-MBP:Tovel16S uli$ qiime dada2 denoise-paired \

--i-demultiplexed-seqs paired-end-demux-trimmed.qza
--p-trunc-len-f 0
--p-trunc-len-r 0
--p-trim-left-f 220
--p-trim-left-r 200
--o-representative-sequences rep-seqs-dada2.qza
--o-table table-dada2.qza
--o-denoising-stats stats-dada2.qza
--verbose

and hurray it worked!!! I thank you so much solving this and I hope also others will find this useful. The outcome, however, is no sequences left but this is something I have to work on.
Again, many many thanks for kind help!!! :+1: :clap:

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