Plugin error from phylogeny:

[SoilRotifer (Mike Robeson)]

Hi @wangder0, welcome to :qiime2:!

It looks a permissions issue writing to the $TMPDIR:

@wangder0

mktemp: failed to create directory

You can confirm the default TMPDIR path by typing:

echo $TMPDIR

Are you running this on a server? Your own computer? You can change the $TMPDIR path as outlined here, and see if that fixes the issue:

Alignment mask error code

Thanks @mentorwan! I’m very strongly suspecting that /spin1/scratch is a network mounted file share. It looks like we are having issues with shutil.rmtree() (a part of the Python standard library) and it doesn’t seem to be “allowed” to delete the files (which is it’s only job). I have an idea for how we might be able to confirm this: I’m guessing you have a metadata file that we can use qiime metadata tabulate on (which will make this test fast). I’d like to try it two different ways, one wa…

-Mike