fastqc doesn't generate report due to missing files

[Redmar]

It appears the fastqc package lacks a number of files required, which means that it cannot display the analysis results, even though it does seem to perform the analysis. This occurs both for the terminal and graphical version of fastqc. I've attached the terminal output of the program since it gives more useful debugging info. I believe the first error (before the progress indicators) is regarding a data file required for some parts of the analysis. The second error is about not finding an image required for generating a report.

Please note: though it runs, this bug makes the fastqc program completely useless since it will not generate any output.

$ fastqc 102517-21_ACAGTG_R1.fastq.gz
java.io.FileNotFoundException: cannot find Confituration/adapter_list.txt
 at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Modules.AdapterContent.<init>(AdapterContent.java:79)
 at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Analysis.OfflineRunner.processFile(OfflineRunner.java:129)
 at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Analysis.OfflineRunner.<init>(OfflineRunner.java:95)
 at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.FastQCApplication.main(FastQCApplication.java:308)
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Analysis complete for 102517-21_ACAGTG_R1.fastq.gz
Failed to process file 102517-21_ACAGTG_R1.fastq.gz
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: input == null!
 at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(ImageIO.java:1388)
 at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Report.HTMLReportArchive.base64ForIcon(HTMLReportArchive.java:377)
 at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Report.HTMLReportArchive.startDocument(HTMLReportArchive.java:301)
 at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Report.HTMLReportArchive.<init>(HTMLReportArchive.java:84)
 at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Analysis.OfflineRunner.analysisComplete(OfflineRunner.java:163)
 at uk.ac.babraham.FastQC.Analysis.AnalysisRunner.run(AnalysisRunner.java:110)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: fastqc 0.11.2+dfsg-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-34.45-generic 3.16.7-ckt8
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-34-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Apr 13 08:20:29 2015
Dependencies:
 libcommons-math3-java 3.3-1
 libjbzip2-java 0.9.1-3
 libsam-java 1.113-1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-07 (248 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: fastqc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-27 (167 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Vimalkumar Velayudhan (vimalkumarvelayudhan)]

This also happens with FastQC version 0.11.4 on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS. The issue can be fixed by copying the contents of the Configuration directory in the source archive to /etc/fastqc.

[Dylan Aïssi (daissi)]

It should be fixed since fastqc 0.11.5+dfsg-2 [1], so in Yakkety.

[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/fastqc.git/commit/debian/install?id=abc3d37a35338652c9571e7623deb53d3460b376