<p dir="ltr">Use "bands.x -i input-file", not "bands.x < input-file"; check that there are no funny characters in the file and that all quotes are quotes and not something else</p>
<p dir="ltr">Paolo</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">Il 26/dic/2016 01:47 PM, "Imam Setiawan" <<a href="mailto:tomieyes6@yahoo.com">tomieyes6@yahoo.com</a>> ha scritto:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9084">  <div id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9085"><div id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9086"><div id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9087"><div id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9088"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9089"><div id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9090"><div id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9091"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:13px" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9092"><div dir="ltr" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9093"><font id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9094" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear PW_forum members,</font></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9095"><font id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9096" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9097"></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9098"><font id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9099" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">I
 run into an error that seems to be already discussed in this forum. 
This is about "reading band namelist" error when trying to run bands.x. I
 have already tried solutions suggested in the other posts such as 
making the prefix and outdir the same as the pw.x's input files but it 
is not solved. Since all questions related to this problem that i have 
found pertain earlier version of QE (I used QE 6.0), could it be 
version-related problem?</font></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9100"><div id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9156"><font id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9101" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">My input for bands.x is the following</font></div><div id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9153"><font id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9101" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9104">&bands<br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9105">   outdir = './work/',<br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9106">   prefix='C_hexa_scf',<br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9107">   filband='C_hexa_band.out',<br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9108">   lsym=.true.<br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9109"><div id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9154">/</div><div id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9155"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9111"><font id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9112" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">and the error I got is</font></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9113"><div id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_17765"><br></div><div>Program BANDS v.6.0 (svn rev. 13079) starts on 25Dec2016 at 22:44:23 </div><br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9115">     This program is part of the open-source Quantum ESPRESSO suite<br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9116">     for quantum simulation of materials; please cite<br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9117">         "P. Giannozzi et al., J. Phys.:Condens. Matter 21 395502 (2009);<br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9118">          URL <a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org" target="_blank">http://www.quantum-espresso.<wbr>org</a>", <br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9119">     in publications or presentations arising from this work. More details at<br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9120">     <a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org/quote" target="_blank">http://www.quantum-espresso.<wbr>org/quote</a><br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9121"><br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9122">     Serial multi-threaded version, running on    1 processor cores<br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9123"><br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9124"> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<wbr>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<wbr>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9125">     Error in routine bands (1):<br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9126">     reading bands namelist<br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9127"> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<wbr>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<wbr>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9128"><br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9129">     stopping ...</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9130"><br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9131"></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9132"><font id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9133" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">I really appreciate anyone's help.</font><br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9134"></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9135"><font id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9136" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9137"></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9138"><font id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9139" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Regards,</font></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9140"><font id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9141" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><br id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9142"></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9143"><font id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9144" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Wahyutama</font></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9145"><font id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9146" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">PhD Student</font></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9147"><font id="m_-5682444400051907019yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482756244494_9148" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">RIKEN Saitama, Japan</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr">   </div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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