I am trying to run salmon and it keeps giving me 2 java exceptions:

java.io.EOFException
    at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.readUByte(GZIPInputStream.java:268)
    at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.readUShort(GZIPInputStream.java:258)
    at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.readHeader(GZIPInputStream.java:164)
    at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.<init>(GZIPInputStream.java:79)
    at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.<init>(GZIPInputStream.java:91)
    at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Utilities.MultiMemberGZIPInputStream.<init>(MultiMemberGZIPInputStream.java:37)

and

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1
    at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Modules.SequenceLengthDistribution.calculateDistribution(SequenceLengthDistribution.java:100)
    at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Modules.SequenceLengthDistribution.raisesError(SequenceLengthDistribution.java:184)
    at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Report.HTMLReportArchive.startDocument(HTMLReportArchive.java:336)
    at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Report.HTMLReportArchive.<init>(HTMLReportArchive.java:84)
    at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Analysis.OfflineRunner.analysisComplete(OfflineRunner.java:155)
    at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Analysis.AnalysisRunner.run(AnalysisRunner.java:110)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

    at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Sequence.FastQFile.<init>(FastQFile.java:80)
    at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Sequence.SequenceFactory.getSequenceFile(SequenceFactory.java:106)
    at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Sequence.SequenceFactory.getSequenceFile(SequenceFactory.java:62)
    at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Analysis.OfflineRunner.processFile(OfflineRunner.java:129)
    at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Analysis.OfflineRunner.<init>(OfflineRunner.java:102)
    at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.FastQCApplication.main(FastQCApplication.java:316)

I installed salmon using Anacondas' conda install -c bioconda salmon and all other necessary packages in the same way. I thought that it could be a problem with fastqc, so I uninstalled it and then installed it manually (through the fastqc.zip file), but the output remained the same. I am using Java8:

java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_92"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (Zulu 8.15.0.1-linux64) (build 1.8.0_92-b15)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (Zulu 8.15.0.1-linux64) (build 25.92-b15, mixed mode)

I am running the script on a cluster with SLURM. Locally on my laptop the script is running without any issues. I am really stuck and do not know what to try, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Update Another issue that I just found is the following (the last command that salmon is trying to execute):

Exception : [Failed to read 8 bytes from input stream! Read 0]
salmon quant was invoked improperly.

Then I searched online for the issue and found the following thread:

https://github.com/COMBINE-lab/salmon/issues/129

However, updating salmon to the newest 0.9.1 version did not solve the issue.

Edit The command I am running is the following one:

python "$path/salmon_rna_seq.py" -L 'IU' -E "$path/jyvo_experiment-
metadata.yaml" -T 'gencode_mouse_m13' -C "$path/salmon_rna_seq.yaml" -I 
"$path_to_fastq/$name-lec_1_r1.fq.gz" "$path_to_fastq/$name-
lec_1_r2.fq.gz" -O "$path/res/$name-lec_1" -S "$name-lec_1" -P '6' -X 'True'

The command is run by Pypiper: https://github.com/epigen/pypiper Inside of salmon_rna_seq.py I am also running commands to treat the data, the salmon part looks the following way:

def salmon(self):
    cmd = "salmon quant -i " + self.indexed_transcriptome
    cmd += " -l " + self.lib_type

    if self.trim:
        cmd += " -1 " + self.sample_files['r1']['fastq']['trimmed_paired']
        cmd += " -2 " + self.sample_files['r2']['fastq']['trimmed_paired']
    else:
        cmd += " -1 " + self.sample_files['r1']['fastq']['chastity']
        cmd += " -2 " + self.sample_files['r2']['fastq']['chastity']

    cmd += " -o " + self.sample_dirs['salmon']['base']
    cmd += " --numBootstraps=30"
self.pipe_manager.run(cmd, self.sample_files['salmon'])

Commands that the Pypiper runs are the following ones (_commands.sh Pypiper file):

zcat -c $PATH/res/old-lec_1/fastq/merged/old-lec_1_r1.fq.gz | grep -A 3 
'^@.*[^:]*:N:[^:]*:' | grep -v '^\-\-$' | gzip -c > $PATH/res/old-lec_1/fastq
/chastity/old-lec_1_r1.fq.gz

zcat -c $PATH/res/old-lec_1/fastq/merged/old-lec_1_r2.fq.gz | grep -A 3 
'^@.*[^:]*:N:[^:]*:' | grep -v '^\-\-$' | gzip -c > $PATH/res/old-lec_1/fastq
/chastity/old-lec_1_r2.fq.gz

java -jar $HOME/anaconda2/share/trimmomatic-0.36-5
/trimmomatic.jar PE -threads 6 -phred33 $PATH/res/old-lec_1/fastq/chastity/old-
lec_1_r1.fq.gz $PATH/res/old-lec_1/fastq/chastity/old-lec_1_r2.fq.gz $PATH/res/old-
lec_1/fastq/trimmed/old-lec_1_r1.fq.gz $PATH/res/old-lec_1/fastq/trimmed/unpaired
/old-lec_1_r1.fq.gz $PATH/res/old-lec_1/fastq/trimmed/old-lec_1_r2.fq.gz $PATH/res/old-
lec_1/fastq/trimmed/unpaired/old-lec_1_r2.fq.gz ILLUMINACLIP:$HOME/anaconda2/share/trimmomatic-0.36-5/adapters
/Small_List_Of_Adapters.fa:2:30:10 LEADING:3 TRAILING:3 SLIDINGWINDOW:4:15
MINLEN:36

fastqc $PATH/res/old-lec_1/fastq/merged/old-lec_1_r1.fq.gz --outdir $PATH/res/old-
lec_1/fastqc/merged

fastqc $PATH/res/old-lec_1/fastq/chastity/old-lec_1_r1.fq.gz --outdir $PATH/res/old-
lec_1/fastqc/chastity

fastqc $PATH/res/old-lec_1/fastq/merged/old-lec_1_r2.fq.gz --outdir $PATH/res/old-
lec_1/fastqc/merged

fastqc $PATH/res/old-lec_1/fastq/chastity/old-lec_1_r2.fq.gz --outdir $PATH/res/old-
lec_1/fastqc/chastity

fastqc $PATH/res/old-lec_1/fastq/trimmed/old-lec_1_r1.fq.gz --outdir $PATH/res/old-
lec_1/fastqc/trimmed

fastqc $PATH/res/old-lec_1/fastq/trimmed/old-lec_1_r2.fq.gz --outdir $PATH/res/old-
lec_1/fastqc/trimmed

salmon quant -i $HOME/Genomes/mouse/salmon
/gencode.vM13.transcripts.fa.sidx -l IU -1 $PATH/res/old-lec_1/fastq/trimmed
/old-lec_1_r1.fq.gz -2 $PATH/res/old-lec_1/fastq/trimmed/old-
lec_1_r2.fq.gz -o $PATH/res/old-lec_1/quantification --numBootstraps=30

Edit

After running manually gzip -t on a file:

-bash-4.2$ gzip -t old-lec_1_r1.fq.gz 
gzip: old-lec_1_r1.fq.gz: unexpected end of file

So, I guess the file is corrupted and the issue is with some library that is generating the file.