# Augur error while subsampling - updated

**URL:** <https://nextstrain.discourse.group/t/augur-error-while-subsampling-updated/203>\
**Category:** Help and Getting Started\
**Created:** [November 21, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://nextstrain.discourse.group/t/augur-error-while-subsampling-updated/203 "2020-11-21T07:19:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://nextstrain.discourse.group/t/augur-error-while-subsampling-updated/203/1 "2020-11-21T07:19:28Z")

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Update: Hi, I took this topic down last night because I thought my metadata file had issues and that fixing it would resolve this error but it did not, so I undeleted this topic. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hi all! I am running into an error while running snakemake during the subsampling processes. There may be something wrong with my build. I was wondering if anybody could help me figure out. Thank you so much in advance! Below is the error log:

[Fri Nov 20 22:39:29 2020]  
Job 99:  
Subsample all sequences by ‘region’ scheme for build ‘north-america’ with the following parameters:

```
     - group by: division year month
     - sequences per group: --sequences-per-group 48
     - subsample max sequences: 
     - min-date: 
     - max-date: 
     - exclude: --exclude-where 'region!=North America'
     - include: 
     - query: 
     - priority: 
    

    augur filter --sequences results/masked.fasta --metadata data/metadata-snf.tsv --include defaults/include.txt --exclude-where 'region!=North America' --group-by division year month --sequences-per-group 48 --output results/north-america/sample-region.fasta 2>&1 | tee logs/subsample_north-america_region.txt

```

[Fri Nov 20 22:39:43 2020]  
Error in rule subsample:  
jobid: 94  
output: results/north-america\_usa/sample-country.fasta  
log: logs/subsample\_north-america\_usa\_country.txt (check log file(s) for error message)  
shell:

```
    augur filter --sequences results/masked.fasta --metadata data/metadata-snf.tsv --include defaults/include.txt --exclude-where 'country!=USA' --group-by division year month --sequences-per-group 200 --output results/north-america_usa/sample-country.fasta 2>&1 | tee logs/subsample_north-america_usa_country.txt
    
    (one of the commands exited with non-zero exit code; note that snakemake uses bash strict mode!)

```

[Fri Nov 20 22:39:45 2020]  
Error in rule subsample:  
jobid: 103  
output: results/global/sample-global.fasta  
log: logs/subsample\_global\_global.txt (check log file(s) for error message)  
shell:

```
    augur filter --sequences results/masked.fasta --metadata data/metadata-snf.tsv --include defaults/include.txt --group-by country year month --sequences-per-group 20 --output results/global/sample-global.fasta 2>&1 | tee logs/subsample_global_global.txt
    
    (one of the commands exited with non-zero exit code; note that snakemake uses bash strict mode!)

```

[Fri Nov 20 22:39:48 2020]  
Error in rule subsample:  
jobid: 83  
output: results/north-america\_usa\_la\_county/sample-focal.fasta  
log: logs/subsample\_north-america\_usa\_la\_county\_focal.txt (check log file(s) for error message)  
shell:

```
    augur filter --sequences results/masked.fasta --metadata data/metadata-snf.tsv --include defaults/include.txt --query "(country == 'USA') & (division == 'California') & (location == 'Los Angeles County')" --group-by year month --sequences-per-group 300 --output results/north-america_usa_la_county/sample-focal.fasta 2>&1 | tee logs/subsample_north-america_usa_la_county_focal.txt
    
    (one of the commands exited with non-zero exit code; note that snakemake uses bash strict mode!)

```

[Fri Nov 20 22:39:53 2020]  
Error in rule subsample:  
jobid: 85  
output: results/north-america\_usa\_la\_county/sample-contextual.fasta  
log: logs/subsample\_north-america\_usa\_la\_county\_contextual.txt (check log file(s) for error message)  
shell:

```
    augur filter --sequences results/masked.fasta --metadata data/metadata-snf.tsv --include defaults/include.txt --exclude-where 'location=Los Angeles County' --group-by country year month --sequences-per-group 10 --output results/north-america_usa_la_county/sample-contextual.fasta 2>&1 | tee logs/subsample_north-america_usa_la_county_contextual.txt
    
    (one of the commands exited with non-zero exit code; note that snakemake uses bash strict mode!)

```

[Fri Nov 20 22:40:02 2020]  
Error in rule subsample:  
jobid: 88  
output: results/north-america\_usa\_california/sample-division.fasta  
log: logs/subsample\_north-america\_usa\_california\_division.txt (check log file(s) for error message)  
shell:

```
    augur filter --sequences results/masked.fasta --metadata data/metadata-snf.tsv --include defaults/include.txt --exclude-where 'region!=North America' 'country!=USA' 'division!=California' --group-by year month --sequences-per-group 300 --output results/north-america_usa_california/sample-division.fasta 2>&1 | tee logs/subsample_north-america_usa_california_division.txt
    
    (one of the commands exited with non-zero exit code; note that snakemake uses bash strict mode!)

```

[Fri Nov 20 22:40:52 2020]  
Finished job 99.  
1354 of 1446 steps (94%) done  
Shutting down, this might take some time.  
Exiting because a job execution failed. Look above for error message  
Complete log: /home/phemarajata/ncov/.snakemake/log/2020-11-20T194601.048130.snakemake.log
