DADA2 in R returned with error code 1

Hi everyone. Nice to be back with a new problem :sweat_smile: . I have seen around forum with this error code but couldn't find the one similar to mine.

I am currently running Qiime2-2020.2 and analyzing 1012 x single end fastq files.I have used the "manifest file import SingleEndFastqManifestPhred33V2" protocol to import my fastq run files in .qza artifacts for analysis. I have successfully ran the dada2 denoise-single command on single-end-demux.qza yesterday. And was also able to produce table.qza and rep-seq.qza successfully.
But I made a mistake with Filenames so I planed to re-analyse the data with correct filenames.I have successfully produced single-end demux.qza file but ran into problem during data2 denoise part.I ran into the following error:

Plugin error from dada2:

** An error was encountered while running DADA2 in R (return code 1), please inspect stdout and stderr to learn more.**

Log file:

cat /tmp/qiime2-q2cli-err-nv2jv9mz.log
**R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02) **
Loading required package: Rcpp
**DADA2: 1.10.0 / Rcpp: 1.0.3 / RcppParallel: 4.4.4 **
1) Filtering ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
2) Learning Error Rates
192186935 total bases in 1023509 reads from 26 samples will be used for learning the error rates.
3) Denoise samples .................................................................................Error in dada_uniques(names(derep[[i]]$uniques), unname(derep[[i]]$uniques), : **
** Bad lambda.

Calls: dada -> dada_uniques
Execution halted
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_single.R /tmp/qiime2-archive-2kfi64qt/a5818789-cbbc-4415-bc34-98495d69e528/data /tmp/tmp5_l50h9j/output.tsv.biom /tmp/tmp5_l50h9j/track.tsv /tmp/tmp5_l50h9j 0 0 2.0 2 Inf consensus 1.0 1 1000000 NULL 16

Traceback (most recent call last):
** File "/home/qamar/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/q2_dada2/_denoise.py", line 177, in _denoise_single**
** run_commands([cmd])**
** File "/home/qamar/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 "/home/qamar/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 418, in run**
** output=stdout, stderr=stderr)**
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['run_dada_single.R', '/tmp/qiime2-archive-2kfi64qt/a5818789-cbbc-4415-bc34-98495d69e528/data', '/tmp/tmp5_l50h9j/output.tsv.biom', '/tmp/tmp5_l50h9j/track.tsv', '/tmp/tmp5_l50h9j', '0', '0', '2.0', '2', 'Inf', 'consensus', '1.0', '1', '1000000', 'NULL', '16']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

My conditions are --p-trim-left 0 \ --p-trunc-len 0 \ for dada2 and using them with "nohup". I am feeling there is something wrong going on with tmp folder by looking at the log file. I will be glad to receive input from you guys. Thanks in advance.

Update: I have tried running the analysis without "nohup" and got this error:

Exception: An error was encountered while running DADA2 in R (return code -6), please inspect stdout and stderr to learn more.

Log file:

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_single.R /tmp/qiime2-archive-4y3s7tt1/2df20be1-3601-4636-9ca5-af97146fb3ad/data /tmp/tmpndh9e8xk/output.tsv.biom /tmp/tmpndh9e8xk/track.tsv /tmp/tmpndh9e8xk 0 0 2.0 2 Inf consensus 1.0 1 1000000 NULL 16

R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Loading required package: Rcpp
DADA2: 1.10.0 / Rcpp: 1.0.3 / RcppParallel: 4.4.4

  1. Filtering ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
  2. Learning Error Rates
    252141014 total bases in 1000809 reads from 42 samples will be used for learning the error rates.
  3. Denoise samples .................................................................................Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/home/qamar/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/q2_dada2/_denoise.py", line 177, in _denoise_single
    run_commands([cmd])
    File "/home/qamar/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 "/home/qamar/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 418, in run
    output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
    subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['run_dada_single.R', '/tmp/qiime2-archive-4y3s7tt1/2df20be1-3601-4636-9ca5-af97146fb3ad/data', '/tmp/tmpndh9e8xk/output.tsv.biom', '/tmp/tmpndh9e8xk/track.tsv', '/tmp/tmpndh9e8xk', '0', '0', '2.0', '2', 'Inf', 'consensus', '1.0', '1', '1000000', 'NULL', '16']' died with <Signals.SIGABRT: 6>.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/qamar/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/q2cli/commands.py", line 328, in call
results = action(**arguments)
File "</home/qamar/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/decorator.py:decorator-gen-453>", line 2, in denoise_single
File "/home/qamar/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/qiime2/sdk/action.py", line 245, in bound_callable
output_types, provenance)
File "/home/qamar/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 "/home/qamar/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/q2_dada2/_denoise.py", line 212, in denoise_single
band_size='16')
File "/home/qamar/miniconda3/envs/qiime2-2020.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/q2_dada2/_denoise.py", line 188, in _denoise_single
" and stderr to learn more." % e.returncode)
Exception: An error was encountered while running DADA2 in R (return code -6), please inspect stdout and stderr to learn more.

I got this error after 4 hours. Also I am planning to reinstall QIIME2 env and see if I get the errors again.

Also I noticed the log says R version 02-07-2018 whereas I have R version installed 3.6.3 (2020-02-29) when I launch R from terminal.

Hi @qamrq25!

I'm sorry to hear things aren't working. This part of the error message jumped out at me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(IPC)#SIGABRT

Something told DADA2 to abort - maybe your clustering system? Maybe the host OS? Do you have a sysadmin you can check in with on this?

No worries there - QIIME 2 conda environment ships its own version of R.

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Hey @thermokarst. Thanks for the help. It will sound strange but I got it worked by a simple trick. I changed my Sequences name back to normal, I used before for successful analysis. :sweat_smile:
So basically I was analyzing 1012 samples and named each sample Protozoa0001, Protozoa0002....... But got the error posted above. To get it working back I changed the names to Protozoa1, Protozoa2....And I was successful with the denoise step.

Although I have asked the admin regarding "Signals.SIGABRT: 6". And will see if it caused the problem with names.
Regards!

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