# AAError in get.oturep

**URL:** <https://forum.mothur.org/t/aaerror-in-get-oturep/1582>\
**Category:** mothur bugs\
**Created:** [November 18, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/aaerror-in-get-oturep/1582 "2013-11-18T19:25:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Kendra](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/kendra/32/112_2.png) [@Kendra](https://forum.mothur.org/u/Kendra)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/aaerror-in-get-oturep/1582/1 "2013-11-18T19:25:47Z")

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I’m trying to run get.oturep and keep getting this error

get.oturep(column=bac\_final.sm.dist, list=bac\_final.an.list, name=bac\_final.names)

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I've searched the dist, list, and names files. I have lots of sequences the begin with HVP but didn't find any that were just HVP. I'm running 1.31

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**Author:** ![Kendra](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/kendra/32/112_2.png) [@Kendra](https://forum.mothur.org/u/Kendra)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/aaerror-in-get-oturep/1582/2 "2013-11-18T20:03:40Z")

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I uploaded the files onto the wiki

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**Author:** ![westcott](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/westcott/32/18_2.png) [@westcott](https://forum.mothur.org/u/westcott)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/aaerror-in-get-oturep/1582/3 "2013-11-19T14:36:28Z")

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When I run your files with set.dir(debug=t), I see:

HVP GM0HNNG02B3VLN 0.1858

Did you run dist.seqs with processors \> 1? We had a recent report, [.dist file with more than 3 columns](https://mothur.ltcmp.net/t/dist-file-with-more-than-3-columns/1497/4) of merging issues when the user ran out of disk space.

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**Author:** ![Kendra](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/kendra/32/112_2.png) [@Kendra](https://forum.mothur.org/u/Kendra)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/aaerror-in-get-oturep/1582/4 "2013-11-19T17:56:54Z")

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Thanks Sarah, I’ll try again. so weird that grep 'HPV ’ didn’t catch that. I think I did use multiple processors creating this dist file (using cluster.split) but it was a few months ago so will take some digging to find the correct logfile

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**Author:** ![Kendra](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/kendra/32/112_2.png) [@Kendra](https://forum.mothur.org/u/Kendra)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/aaerror-in-get-oturep/1582/5 "2013-11-19T19:31:14Z")

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hum, so I found that error when I ran debug=t. it seems like that sequence pair was duplicated because the line above it is

HVPQ45002I7MT7 GM0HNNG02B3VLN 0.1858  
HVP GM0HNNG02B3VLN 0.1858

But I’m not able to find it through grep. went ahead and opened the whole thing in vim. the actual last 2 lines of the dist file are

HVPQ45002I7MT7 GM0HNNG02B3VLN 0.1858  
HVP

I deleted the last line and am trying get.oturep again. HVPQ45002 is the last plate for that batch of sequences but I’m not certain that the file truncated properly