Hi Biostars

I am trying to convert sra from [PRJNA282735][1] dataset to fastq and I am getting following error...

> fastq-dump.2.1.7 fatal: SIGNAL - Segmentation fault

My fastq-dump command is 

    fastq-dump --split-3 SRR2016445.sra -O SRR2016445

I am not able to find similar error elsewhere. The [ENA page][2] for some samples of this dataset has three files per SRX experiment (e.g. SRR2016445.fastq, SRR2016445_1.fastq and SRR2016445_2.fastq). 

This is unusual for me as I usually get one or two SRR runs per experiment (depending on single end paired end) but never 3. I am wondering if this is the reason for getting errors.

Anybody with similar experience?

  [1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA282735/
  [2]: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/PRJNA282735
I think 2.1. is fairly old, with a slightly newer version 2.4.2 I get:
       fastq-dump.2.4.2 err: error unexpected while resolving tree within virtual file system module - failed to resolve accession 'SRR2016445' - Obsolete software. See https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools/wiki ( 406 )

The latest release on github is 2.8, you should get and install the latest version as outlined here: https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools/wiki