Simon Andrews

That's very strange. On the face of it it looks like it's just finding something else at the start, but it could be mis-detecting the file type. It's not something...

When we've taken in data files where this has happened it's nearly always been because the file was corrupt and when the file was unzipped it generated some rubbish output...

> I installed v0.11.9 and everything works as it used to :) So nothing changed in the decompression code between 11.9 and 12. The only thing which may have changed...

As a standing offer to anyone who is posting on these threads, if you are able to share your problematic file with us then we're very happy to take a...

I had a look in our web server logs and there's no sign of any errors when downloading fastqc. In the access logs I can see many requests for the...

Just tried a download from an EC2 instance in London: ``` [ec2-user@ip-172-31-26-222 ~]$ wget https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/fastqc_v0.12.1.zip --2023-06-12 08:21:56-- https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/fastqc_v0.12.1.zip Resolving www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk (www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk)... 149.155.133.4 Connecting to www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk (www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk)|149.155.133.4|:443... connected. HTTP request sent,...

Tried a download from California: ``` [ec2-user@ip-172-31-28-125 ~]$ wget https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/fastqc_v0.12.1.zip --2023-06-12 08:25:26-- https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/fastqc_v0.12.1.zip Resolving www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk (www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk)... 149.155.133.4 Connecting to www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk (www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk)|149.155.133.4|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length:...

Tried from the Ohio datacentre which is the closest I can find to the site which last reported a problem: ``` [ec2-user@ip-172-31-21-220 ~]$ wget https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/fastqc_v0.12.1.zip --2023-06-12 08:29:40-- https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/fastqc_v0.12.1.zip Resolving www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk...

From everything I can see our site is available and working and the routes to it from various places across the US (where the problems have mostly been reported) are...

OK, so we've reproduced this, albeit not with fastqc. I've been building training images on the EC2 California data centre and our big data downloads are stalling then hanging. No...