Hello Bastien Here is the output. I am using RocksCluster version 5.5 Your system seems to be older or have some quirks with locale settings. Using the LC_ALL=C workaround. If you don't want that, upgrade your system ;-) This is MIRA 3.9.4 (). Please cite: Chevreux, B., Wetter, T. and Suhai, S. (1999), Genome Sequence Assembly Using Trace Signals and Additional Sequence Information. Computer Science and Biology: Proceedings of the German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB) 99, pp. 45-56. To (un-)subscribe the MIRA mailing lists, see: http://www.chevreux.org/mira_mailinglists.html After subscribing, mail general questions to the MIRA talk mailing list: mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To report bugs or ask for features, please use the new ticketing system at: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mira-assembler/ This ensures that requests don't get lost. Compiled by: bach Sat Aug 25 23:15:51 CEST 2012 On: Linux vk10464 2.6.32-41-generic #94-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 6 18:00:34 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux Compiled in boundtracking mode. Compiled in bugtracking mode. Compiled with ENABLE64 activated. Runtime settings (sorry, for debug): Size of size_t : 8 Size of uint32 : 4 Size of uint32_t: 4 Size of uint64 : 8 Size of uint64_t: 8 Current system: Linux thunder-0-4.local 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Apr 17 17:08:00 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux k: project v: Mira_SBW_Map3 k: job v: mapping,genome,accurate,solexa k: parameters v: -GE:not=15 k: readgroup v: 454assembly k: technology v: 454 k: data v: Mira_SBW_Map3_backbone_in.caf k: as_reference v: k: parameters v: -SB:bft=caf k: -SK:mnr v: 1:pr=70:hss=2 Fatal error (may be due to problems of the input data or parameters): "In file ../map3_manifest.dat: line -SK:mnr=1:pr=70:hss=2 has keyword '-sk:mnr' which is not recognised." ->Thrown: void Manifest::slurpInManifest(stringstream & mfin, const string & origsource)) ->Caught: main Aborting process, probably due to error in the input data or parametrisation. Please check the output log for more information. For help, please write a mail to the mira talk mailing list. Subscribing / unsubscribing to mira talk, see: //www.freelists.org/list/mira_talk CWD: /thunderstorm/users/mmbrand/C_fumiferana/assembly/mira/Map3 Thank you for noticing that this is *NOT* a crash, but a controlled program stop. Thank you very much. Marcelo -- Marcelo Mendes Brandão Academic Visitor at University of Alberta @ Edmonton Website: http://bioinfo.esalq.usp.br AtPIN: http://bioinfo.esalq.usp.br/atpin SKYPE: mmbrand