[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#644962: ncbi-blast+: [blastp] Critical: ncbi::CObject::ThrowNullPointerException() - Attempt to access NULL pointer.

[Aaron M. Ucko]

tags 644962 + moreinfo
thanks

Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> writes:

> This error is reproducible on a Mac OS X 10.6.8 with manually-compiled
> 2.2.24+ and 2.2.25+, on a Debian lenny 5.0.8 with manually-compiled
> 2.2.24+ and on a Debian sid chroot on my laptop [1] with the stock
> Debian ncbi-blast+ package (version 2.2.25-6).  However, this does not
> happen with the online NCBI BLAST interface [2][3].

Thanks for the detailed report!

> [3] RID 8UUGT24C013, in case someone will have access to the logs

I don't have access, but will forward this report to coworkers who do.

> Warning: (802.8)  NULL pointer found in container: skipping

It looks like you're somehow getting NULL results mixed in; raw ASN.1
output elides them, but other formats entail further processing that
doesn't allow for that possibility (which shouldn't happen, to be fair).
It's hard to tell exactly why, particularly without access to your query
data (whose confidentiality I understand); however, repeating the failing
commands with the environment setting EXCEPTION_STACK_TRACE_LEVEL=Debug
may shed some light on the matter.  Could you please do so?

Thanks!

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