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<div> When that happens to me on cineca, removing all the temporary files on scratch except the "<font><font color="black" face="arial" size="2">_phprefix.phsave</font></font>" directory usually works for me, as suggested on the manual for phonon calculations.<br>
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"This mechanism allows:<br>
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1) To recover part of the ph.x calculation even if the recover file<br>
or files are corrupted. You just remove the _phprefix.recover<br>
files from the tmp_dir directory. You can also remove all the _ph<br>
files and keep only the _phprefix.phsave directory.<br>
"<br>
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<div> But I have to admit that, nowadys, <font><font color="black" face="arial" size="2">in order to avoid this error, </font></font>I always split my phonon calculations into several smaller parts that can run in the time limit allowed by cineca.<br>
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I hope it helps.<br>
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Fabio Negreiros Ribeiro<br>
IPCF - CNR, Pisa - Italy<br>
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From: Omololu Akin-Ojo <prayerz.omo@gmail.com><br>
To: pw_forum@pwscf.org<br>
Sent: Mon, Nov 8, 2010 8:53 am<br>
Subject: [Pw_forum] xml_recover problem with phonon (ph.x) restart job<br>
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<pre>Ciao tutti,<br>
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I am trying to re-start a phonon calculation job on an sp6 machine (CINECA) but I got the following error:<br>
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cannot open xml_recover file for writing<br>
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</pre>This error was reported in the past (see following link). Does anyone know how to quickly fix this problem?<br>
Alternatively, does anyone know where I can get version 4.05 of Quantum-Espresso? The poster of the message below said the restart works for version 4.05. <br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://qe-forge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=133&aid=27&group_id=10">http://qe-forge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=133&aid=27&group_id=10</a><br>
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Vi ringrazio.<br>
<br>
Omololu<br>
ICTP, Italy.<br clear="all"><br>
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