Hello Paolo<br>
The same error appeared with v3.2.<br>
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     Program PWSCF     v.3.2    starts ...<br>
     Today is 17Jan2008 at 20:55:29 <br>
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     Parallel version (MPI)<br>
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     Number of processors in use:       1<br>
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     Ultrasoft (Vanderbilt) Pseudopotentials<br>
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     Current dimensions of program pwscf are:<br>
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     ntypx = 10   npk = 40000  lmax =  3<br>
     nchix =  6  ndmx =  2000  nbrx = 14  nqfx =  8<br>
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     from readvan : error #        59<br>
     error reading pseudo file<br>
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     stopping ...<br><br><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">I wondered whether the format of the PP is correct<br>
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</span></span>THe first part of the PP is shown below:</span><br>
    7    3    4   12    3 2004
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Ni (US s-loc)         
28.000000000   10.000000000    5.000000000
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    3  939 -9.53855345677E+01
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  320    8.000000000   -0.652240294
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  400    2.000000000   -0.414755227
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  410    0.000000000   -0.090035867
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    3    1    1.200000000
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    3    0 -0.41475    3    8 10.00000
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  1.20000000000E+00  1.20000000000E+00  1.20000000000E+00  1.20000000000E+00
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  1.20000000000E+00
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    2
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  2.03000000000E+00  2.22802202189E+00  2.00000000000E+00
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    3  677
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    1
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 -9.00366252122E-02  0.00000000000E+00 -7.19962583407E-13 -2.92845340520E-12
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 -6.70053286789E-12 -1.21142191010E-11 -1.92505951636E-11 -2.81939199977E-11
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 -3.90317432609E-11 -5.18550241718E-11 -6.67582545070E-11 -8.38395858919E-11
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 -1.03200961533E-10 -1.24948252542E-10 -1.49191399020E-10 -1.76044556043E-10
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 -2.05626244746E-10 -2.38059508658E-10 -2.73472075477E-10 -3.11996524474E-10</font><br>
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Yours sincerely,<br><br>Clark Lee<br><br>State Key Lab of Corrosion and Protection (SKLCP)<br>Institute of Metal Research (IMR)<br>Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China<br>Phone: 024-23971339<br>Email: <a href="mailto:jibiaoli@imr.ac.cn">
jibiaoli@imr.ac.cn</a> or <a href="mailto:jibiaoli@gmail.com">jibiaoli@gmail.com</a>