# Trouble with VEP GRCh37

**URL:** <https://discuss.hail.is/t/trouble-with-vep-grch37/1470>\
**Category:** Hail Query & hailctl\
**Created:** [June 21, 2020, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/trouble-with-vep-grch37/1470 "2020-06-21T11:35:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Danish436](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Danish436](https://discuss.hail.is/u/Danish436)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2020, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/trouble-with-vep-grch37/1470/1 "2020-06-21T11:35:11Z")

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For the past few days, i am getting an error message whenever i try to initiate the cluster with --vep GRCh37.

I am getting the following error message:

Initialization action failed. Failed action ‘gs://hail-common/hailctl/dataproc/0.2.23/vep-GRCh37.sh’, see output in: gs://wes\_development/google-cloud-dataproc-metainfo/b93872f2-a05e-4fe3-a6ac-3879d9448028/hailjupy-m/dataproc-initialization-script-1\_output

When i look at the output file, i get the following message in the last lines:

Status: Downloaded newer image for konradjk/vep85\_loftee:1.0.3  
[docker.io/konradjk/vep85\_loftee:1.0.3](http://docker.io/konradjk/vep85_loftee:1.0.3)  
CommandException: No URLs matched: gs://hail-common/vep/vep/loftee-beta/GRCh37/1var.vcf  
cat: /1var.vcf: No such file or directory  
ERROR: No cache found for homo\_sapiens, version 85

I get no error messages when i initiate with --VEP GRCh38.

I would be thankful for your help.

Thanks

Danish

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**Author:** ![Danish436](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Danish436](https://discuss.hail.is/u/Danish436)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/trouble-with-vep-grch37/1470/2 "2020-06-21T13:59:02Z")

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I have updated hail which resolved the above problem. However, I am now having a new problem.

failed: Initialization action failed. Failed action ‘gs://hail-common/hailctl/dataproc/0.2.46/init\_notebook.py’, see output in: gs://wes\_development/google-cloud-dataproc-metainfo/3427c8dd-67a7-466f-bbb9-38f22adeff25/hailjupy-m/dataproc-initialization-script-0\_output.

In the output, i see the following last lines

Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “/etc/google-dataproc/startup-scripts/dataproc-initialization-script-0”, line 64, in   
safe\_call(\*command)  
File “/etc/google-dataproc/startup-scripts/dataproc-initialization-script-0”, line 18, in safe\_call  
print(e.output).decode()  
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘decode’

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**Author:** ![Danish436](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Danish436](https://discuss.hail.is/u/Danish436)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/trouble-with-vep-grch37/1470/3 "2020-06-22T15:56:40Z")

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Kindly help

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**Author:** ![danking](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.hail.is/danking/32/43_2.png) [@danking](https://discuss.hail.is/u/danking)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/trouble-with-vep-grch37/1470/4 "2020-06-22T16:09:04Z")

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See solution at [Problem of running VEP on HAIL](https://discuss.hail.is/t/problem-of-running-vep-on-hail/1472/2)