<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Dr.Andrea,<div><br></div><div>Thank you.In fact, the output directory is already empty. Here is my submit folder</div><div>......................</div><div>$ ls<br>elastic_constants  g1  g3  g5  g7  gnuplot_files        outdir  <a href="http://scf.in">scf.in</a>  Si.pbe-n-rrkjus_psl.1.0.0.UPF  therm_files<br>energy_files    g2  g4  g6  g8  O.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.0.1.UPF  restart  scf.out     thermo_control<br>$ ls restart/<br>e_work_part.1.1  e_work_part.2.1  e_work_part.3.1  e_work_part.4.1  e_work_part.5.1  e_work_part.6.1  e_work_part.7.1<br>$ ls outdir/<br>$ <br> I specified (<span style="background-color:rgb(253,253,253);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">outdir = './') in </span><span style="background-color:rgb(253,253,253);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">&CONTROL namelist of</span><span style="background-color:rgb(253,253,253);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"> <a href="http://scf.in">scf.in</a>.</span></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Regards,</div></div></div></div></div></div>Omran</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 9:56 AM Andrea Dal Corso <<a href="mailto:dalcorso@sissa.it">dalcorso@sissa.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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This is a problem of QE, I do not know why it cannot restart. In any case you can clean the outdir directory and</div>
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run the calculation on the same working directory that you are using now. In the directory restart
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there are the information for the first seven geometries and these will not be redone. Only the partial calculations</div>
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of the last geometry will be lost.</div>
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<div id="gmail-m_2053653791267082691divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Thermo_pw-forum <<a href="mailto:thermo_pw-forum-bounces@lists.quantum-espresso.org" target="_blank">thermo_pw-forum-bounces@lists.quantum-espresso.org</a>> on behalf of Ahmed Sherif Omran <<a href="mailto:microomran@gmail.com" target="_blank">microomran@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 12, 2021 10:30 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Thermo_pw-forum] Error during Restart</font>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dear Dr.Andrea,</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I have<b>Â </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>mur_lc_elastic_constants</b>
for my calculation, thing seems going pretty good and the program is terminated after 7 geometry relaxations at my max_seconds specified at my thermo_control file</span></div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Output file:</span></div>
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  .....<br>
   IMPORTANT: XC functional enforced from input :<br>
   Exchange-correlation= VDW-DF2<br>
              (  1  4  13  0  2  0  0)<br>
   Any further DFT definition will be discarded<br>
   Please, verify this is what you really want<br>
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        file O.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.0.1.UPF: wavefunction(s)  2P renormalized<br>
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  Info: using nr1, nr2, nr3 values from input<br>
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   Computing the elastic constants at the minimum volume <br>
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   FFT mesh: (  288,  288,  192 )<br>
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   Bravais lattice:<br>
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   ibrav=  8: simple orthorhombic<br>
   Cell parameters:<br>
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   alat=  38.482576 a.u., b/a=  0.986765, c/a=  0.666254<br>
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   total energy        =  -9326.46456006 Ry<br>
   Harris-Foulkes estimate  =  -9326.46456079 Ry<br>
   estimated scf accuracy   <    0.00000151 Ry<br>
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   iteration #  4   ecut=   65.00 Ry   beta= 0.70<br>
   Davidson diagonalization with overlap<br>
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   <b>Maximum CPU time exceeded</b><br>
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   max_seconds   =  82500.00<br>
   elapsed seconds =  82502.04<br>
   Calculation stopped in k-point loop, point #   1<br>
   Calculation stopped in scf loop at iteration #   3<br>
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   Writing output data file .//g7/pwscf.save/<br>
   Message from routine punch:<br>
   wavefunctions written to file<br>
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   Doing geometry   8<br>
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   Current dimensions of program PWSCF are:<br>
   Max number of different atomic species (ntypx) = 10<br>
   Max number of k-points (npk) =  40000<br>
   Max angular momentum in pseudopotentials (lmaxx) =  3<br>
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Trying to restart again I got <span style="font-size:10pt">the following error at ouput:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Program THERMO_PW v.6.5 starts on 11Oct2021 at 22:31: 7</span></div>
   This program is part of the open-source Quantum ESPRESSO suite<br>
   for quantum simulation of materials; please cite..<br>
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  Atomic positions and unit cell read from directory:<br>
   .//g1/pwscf.save/ <br>
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<b>   Error in routine  cdiaghg (1):<br>
   problems computing cholesky</b><br>
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   stopping ...<br>
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Here is my input files:</div>
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&CONTROL<br>
 title = 'MFI'<br>
 pseudo_dir = '.'<br>
 outdir = './'<br>
 calculation = 'relax'<br>
 nstep=1000<br>
 !number of molecular-dynamics or structural optimization steps,Default:1 if calculation == 'scf', 'nscf', 'bands'; 50 for the other cases<br>
  etot_conv_thr = 1e-4<br>
  forc_conv_thr = 1e-4<br>
!-0.78e-3Ry/Bohr=-0.02<br>
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 max_seconds=41500<br>
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&SYSTEM<br>
  !celldm(1)= 37.96459801<br>
  a   =  20.364102339502<br>
  b   =  20.0945929797784<br>
  c   =  13.5676737739375<br>
  ibrav = 8<br>
  nat  = 288<br>
  ntyp  = 2<br>
 ecutwfc= 65.0<br>
 ecutrho = 520.0<br>
!ecuthro=8-10*ecutwfc<br>
!occupations='smearing'<br>
!gaussian smearing<br>
 smearing='gaussian'<br>
!ordinary Gaussian spreading (Default)<br>
 degauss= 0.022<br>
 input_dft= 'vdw-df2'<br>
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&ELECTRONS<br>
 mixing_beta = 0.7<br>
 conv_thr =  1.0d-08<br>
 diagonalization='david'<br>
 electron_maxstep = 150<br>
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&IONS<br>
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&CELL<br>
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ATOMIC_SPECIES<br>
Si   28.086   Si.pbe-n-rrkjus_psl.1.0.0.UPF<br>
O Â Â Â 15.99940 Â O.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.0.1.UPF<br>
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 what='mur_lc_elastic_constants',<br>
 !continue_zero_ibrav=.FALSE.,<br>
 !find_ibrav=.TRUE.,<br>
 frozen_ions=.FALSE.,<br>
 show_fit=.TRUE.<br>
 max_seconds=82500<br>
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Did I miss something with the restart?</div>
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Thank you</div>
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Regards,</div>
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