Silva reference files bug

Hi,
My Mothur is unable to read the silva reference files in align.seqs, please help…

using Mothur 1.34.4 in Amazon EC2 linux server, I get the following results:

mothur> align.seqs(fasta=stability.trim.contigs.good.unique.fasta, reference=silva.seed_v119.align, flip=T, processors=4)
using 4 processors.
Reading in the silva.seed_v119.align template sequences… [ERROR]: template is not aligned, aborting.
DONE.
It took 14 to read 10281 sequences.

mothur> align.seqs(fasta=stability.trim.contigs.good.unique.fasta, reference=silva.nr_v119.align, flip=T, processors=4)
using 4 processors.
Reading in the silva.nr_v119.align template sequences… Killed

I was thinking as a last resort to try using an older version of Mothur, but these are not compiled and I don’t know enough about compiling.

Thanks for your help,
P.

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