PSICoffee - WARNING: [ncbiblast_lwp.pl] failed to produce xml output

[AlbanMariette]

Hello,
I am currently using t-coffee to perform multiple sequence alignment of proteins to study evolution of transmembrane protein. Since recently I cannot use t-coffee anymore because of an issue with BLAST and it does not seem to be due to t-coffee because I face this issue either with the 13.41.0 or the last beta version 13.44.4.6104691.

I get the following output:
WARNING: [ncbiblast_lwp.pl] [t_coffee -other_pg ncbiblast_lwp.pl --email myemail -D uniref50 -p blastp --outfile outfile --align 5 --stype protein seqfile>/dev/null 2>file.95815.2458162175.32833] failed to produce xml output -- will ne tried again [1]

And this message keep appearing with the numbers incrementing, suggesting that the BLAST does not work correctly. I did some test and it is not sequence dependent. Apparently my email is accepted because I don't get the error "BLAST_FAILURE::Invalid_or_rejected_email"

Do you have any idea where this warning could come from, and why it fails to produce xml output ?

Thank you for your help,
if you would need more information please let me know.

Alban

[athbaltzis]

Hi Alban,
Thank you for your bug report. You can try the latest commit in which the issue with blast should be fixed.

Please let me know if you face any other issue.

Athanasios

[AlbanMariette]

Hi athbaltzis,
Thanks for your reply we are currently testing the last version. It however ran into an unresolved lock during the alignment process, the administrator of the HPC are currently looking at it.
Best,
Alban

[cnotred]

The unresolved lock is an issue that occasionally pops up and that we are investigating. It should only have an impact on temp files being left over. But if it results in other Pb on your side please let me know Cheers Cedric ################################### Dr Cedric Notredame Group Leader Notredame's lab - Comparative Bioinformatics Group Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme Room 440.03 Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG) Dr. Aiguader, 88 08003 Barcelona Spain Ph# + 34 93 316 02 71 Fax# + 34 93 316 00 99 Mobile# + 34 66 250 47 82 email cedric.notredame@crg.eu url www.tcoffee.org blog cedricnotredame.blogspot.com ORC-ID: 0000-0003-1461-0988 ###################################

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On 5 Nov 2020, at 04:23, Alban MARIETTE ***@***.***> wrote:  Hi athbaltzis, Thanks for your reply we are currently testing the last version. It however ran into an unresolved lock during the alignment process, the administrator of the HPC are currently looking at it. Best, Alban — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.