[Pw_forum] xcrysden failure

Tone Kokalj tone.kokalj at ijs.si
Thu Aug 14 13:21:13 CEST 2014


On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 14:00 +0300, Winfred Mulwa wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have installed xcrysden 1.5.24 in my laptop, but when i try to
> visualize a cell, it gives an error in startup script: couldn't change
> working directory to 
> 
> "Documents/xc_6882": no such file or directory. Please advice me what
> might be the problem?

The cause is a very improper definition of XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH
environmental variable. Simplest way to fix the problem is to unset it
(then the /tmp will be used instead).

Please consider asking next time such question to xcrysden mailing list.

Regards,
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