<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Dear All<br>I want to fix the distance between  two atom during relaxation , the distance is 1.98 , but the code crash and the error is <br>     target =   3.67419827<br>     dmax   =   2.79062000<br><br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>     from init_constraint : error #         1<br>     the target for constraint 1 is larger than the largest possible value<br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br><br>why does it happen and what can I do?<br><br><br>this is my input
 file:<br><br> &CONTROL<br>                       title = 'routile lattice BFGS' ,<br>                 calculation = 'relax' ,<br>                restart_mode = 'from_scratch' ,<br>                      outdir = '/ptmp/kazempou/scratch' ,<br>                  pseudo_dir = './' ,<br>                      prefix = 'routil lattice default'
 ,<br>               etot_conv_thr = 0.000000735 ,<br>               forc_conv_thr = 0.0011668141375 ,<br> /<br> &SYSTEM<br>                       ibrav = 6,<br>                   celldm(1) = 8.68,<br>                   celldm(3) = 0.643,<br>                         nat =
 6,<br>                        ntyp = 2,<br>                     ecutwfc = 15 ,<br>                     ecutrho = 400 ,<br> /<br> &ELECTRONS<br>                    conv_thr = 1.0D-4 ,<br> /<br> &IONS<br> /<br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br>   Ti   47.86700  ti.optgga2.fhi.UPF <br>    O   15.99940  o.optgga1.fhi.UPF <br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal <br>   Ti      0.000000000    0.000000000   
 0.000000000    <br>   Ti      0.500000000    0.500000000    0.500000000    <br>    O      0.305300000    0.305300000    0.000000000    <br>    O     -0.305300000   -0.305300000    0.000000000    <br>    O      0.805300000    0.194700000    0.500000000    <br>    O      0.194700000    0.805300000    0.500000000    <br>K_POINTS automatic <br>  8 8 10   0 0 0 <br>CONSTRAINTS<br>  1  1.98 <br>  'distance'      2   4 <br><br>thanks a lot<br><br><div> </div>Ali
 Kazempour<br><br><br><br><div><br>Fritz-Haber-Institut              fax   : ++49-30-8413 4701<br>der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft<br>Faradayweg 4-6                    e-mail: kazempou@fhi-berlin.mpg.de<br>D-14 195 Berlin-Dahlem / German<div><br></div></div>
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