picard MarkDuplicates error

Question

[Cindy]

Hi, I have got a wired error from picard. When I run MarkDuplicates for single file, it works. But when I run multiple files, it shows error as following. Is this because too many files? or something wrong with the virtual box? I am running thin on Ubuntu on VM (host: win 10)

Exception in thread "main" net.sf.picard.PicardException: Could not create temporary directory /tmp/CSPI.3839395324178121807.tmp
    at net.sf.picard.io.IoUtil.createTempDir(IoUtil.java:476)
    at net.sf.picard.sam.CoordinateSortedPairInfoMap.<init>(CoordinateSortedPairInfoMap.java:51)
    at net.sf.picard.sam.DiskReadEndsMap.<init>(DiskReadEndsMap.java:57)
    at net.sf.picard.sam.MarkDuplicates.buildSortedReadEndLists(MarkDuplicates.java:391)
    at net.sf.picard.sam.MarkDuplicates.doWork(MarkDuplicates.java:161)
    at net.sf.picard.cmdline.CommandLineProgram.instanceMain(CommandLineProgram.java:177)
    at net.sf.picard.sam.MarkDuplicates.main(MarkDuplicates.java:145)

[GenoMax]

But when I run multiple files

What does your Picard command look like in that case? The error is about not being able to create directories in the /tmp directory.

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

at net.sf.picard.io.IoUtil.createTempDir(IoUtil.java:476)

this doesn't exist anymore. It's now

htsjdk.samtools.util.IOUtil

it means that your version of picard is very old. current is 2.10.3 https://github.com/broadinstitute/picard/releases