Reported by @muell149. When you run lobster validate --delete-merged when there aren't actually intermediate merge files to delete, you get messages like this, which confusingly look like something went wrong.
2017-05-25 21:00:35 [DEBUG] lobster.se: method remove of <lobster.se.Hadoop object at 0x7f0cecb4c5d0> failed with delete: no path given, using args (), {}
2017-05-25 21:00:35 [INFO] lobster.validate: validating output files for WWqq_rares
2017-05-25 21:00:35 [DEBUG] lobster.se: resolving file system method 'ls' with arguments ('WWqq_rares',), {}
2017-05-25 21:00:36 [DEBUG] lobster.se: resolving file system method 'remove' with arguments (), {}
2017-05-25 21:00:36 [DEBUG] lobster.se: method remove of <lobster.se.Hadoop object at 0x7f0cecb4c5d0> failed with delete: no path given, using args (), {}
Reported by @muell149. When you run
lobster validate --delete-merged
when there aren't actually intermediate merge files to delete, you get messages like this, which confusingly look like something went wrong.