The patches have been put into a pull request. Lance Nate Coraor wrote:
Lance Parsons wrote:
For what it's worth, I ran into an issue with the use of /tmp as well. When merging a lot of BAM files, /tmp filled up and the merge failed. To make matters worse, since STDERR is redirected and the exit status of java is not checked, the item in the Galaxy history appeared OK. Though examination of the .log file revealed the issue, users weren't aware of the problem right away, causing further confusion. To get around this, I implemented two fixes:
1 - Wrapper for sam_merge2 very similar to hide_stderr.py used by the ncbi_blast_plus tools. I did have to "hack" it a bit, however, since when I output the captured stderr, galaxy would hang if it was too large. My "fix" was to output the first and last 7500 characters of stderr (truncating the middle). Now when the merge fails, users see a failure in Galaxy (red history item).
2 - Looking at other Picard tools, it seems that at least some of them explicitly set TMP_DIR to $__new_files_directory__, which in this case seemed appropriate, at least for my use case. So I added that simple change to the sam_merge.xml command line.
I'm open to better solutions if people see issues with these, but I would suggest that Galaxy be updated to include fixes for these issues since it seems others are likely to run into these problems. If people generally agree I'd be happy to provide create tickets and/or provide changesets or whatever the Galaxy maintainers would prefer.
Hi Lance,
Could you put these patches in an issue (or create a pull request)?
Thanks, --nate
-- Lance Parsons - Scientific Programmer 134 Carl C. Icahn Laboratory Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Princeton University