Segmentation Fault

[AhmedSAHassan]

Hi,
I am pretty new to using STAR and I am receiving a segmentation fault error message when trying to execute this command
STAR --runMode genomeGenerate --genomeDir geneIndex/ --genomeFastaFiles Homo_sapiens.GRCh38.dna_sm.primary_assembly.fa --sjdbGTFfile Homo_sapiens.GRCh38.111.gtf --runThreadN 4

I am working on Ubuntu subsystem on a Windows machine.

how can I fix this issue?
Thanks in advance

[kuowenhsi]

I guess you just ran out of memory. How much memory do you have?

[AhmedSAHassan]

Thanks for your reply.
Ok, that's probably the problem. I have 16GB of RAM

[kuowenhsi]

For a human genome, 16GB sounds a little limited. I'd suggest try it again on a 32GB up and a real Linux-based system.
Hope it is helpful.