Trimmomatic error when running SRA data

Dataset Information

Number 12
Name SRR11532725:reverse
Created Wednesday Mar 18th 14:25:37 2026 GMT+5:30
Filesize 6.4 MB
Dbkey ?
Format fastqsanger.gz
File contents contents

Tool Parameters

Input Parameter Value
select input type accession_number
Accession SRR11532725

I received the below error when running for the above input data. Kindly suggest.

Why Trimmomatic Might Fail

Trimmomatic is a Java‐based read‑trimming tool. When it “did not finish successfully” Galaxy usually captures the stderr output and shows a generic Tool failed message.
Typical reasons for a failure are:

Category What usually goes wrong How it shows up in the log
Input files • Wrong file type (e.g., FASTA instead of FASTQ)
• Corrupted or empty file
• Mismatched read‑pair files (different number of reads)
Error: Input file is not a valid FASTQ file, java.io.IOException: Stream closed
Adapter / reference files • Path to adapter list not supplied or does not exist
• Wrong format (FASTA instead of plain text list)
FileNotFoundException or IllegalArgumentException
Java memory / JVM options • Not enough RAM for the dataset (especially large paired‑end libraries) java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
Command‑line arguments • Invalid parameter values (e.g., negative trim length)
• Missing required option
IllegalArgumentException
Disk space / I/O • No free space in Galaxy’s temporary directory
• Permissions problems on the output location
No space left on device, Permission denied
Tool version mismatch • Using an outdated Trimmomatic wrapper that expects a different version of the JAR Version‑specific error messages

Because you only see the generic “Trimmomatic did not finish successfully” message, we need to look at the tool log to know which of the above (or something else) triggered the failure.

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As explained to you before, don’t report this here. It will not help us solve your issues.