<div><div><div>Dear QE community,</div><div><br></div><div>The NEB example 01 works fine to me when I run the run_example script. But I encountered a problem when trying to run the exactly same input by the command: mpirun -np 2 neb.x <H2+H.in> H2+H.out</div><div><br></div><div> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</div><div>     task #         0</div><div>     from string_methods : error #         1</div><div>     Neither a file to parse nor input files for each image found</div><div> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</div><div><br></div></div><div>Could you please help me resolve this problem?</div><div><br></div><div>Best </div><div><br></div><div>Jibiao Li</div><div><br></div><div>Yangtze Normal University, China</div><div><br></div><div>BEGIN</div><div>BEGIN_PATH_INPUT</div><div>&PATH</div><div>  restart_mode      = 'from_scratch'</div><div>  string_method     = 'neb',</div><div>  nstep_path        = 20,</div><div>  ds                = 2.D0,</div><div>  opt_scheme        = "broyden",</div><div>  num_of_images     = 7,</div><div>  k_max             = 0.3D0,</div><div>  k_min             = 0.2D0,</div><div>  CI_scheme         = "auto",</div><div>  path_thr          = 0.1D0,</div><div>/</div><div>END_PATH_INPUT</div><div>BEGIN_ENGINE_INPUT</div><div>&CONTROL</div><div>  prefix         = "H2+H"</div><div>  outdir         = "/home/bmllzr/codes/espresso-6.1/tempdir",</div><div>  pseudo_dir     = "/home/bmllzr/codes/espresso-6.1/pseudo",</div><div>/</div><div>&SYSTEM</div><div>  ibrav                  = 0,</div><div>  nat                    = 3,</div><div>  ntyp                   = 1,</div><div>  ecutwfc                = 20.0D0,</div><div>  ecutrho                = 100.0D0,</div><div>  nspin                  = 2,</div><div>  starting_magnetization = 0.5D0,</div><div>  occupations            = "smearing",</div><div>  degauss                = 0.03D0,</div><div>/</div><div>&ELECTRONS</div><div>  conv_thr    = 1.D-8,</div><div>  mixing_beta = 0.3D0,</div><div>/</div><div>&IONS</div><div>/</div><div>ATOMIC_SPECIES</div><div>H  1.00794  HUSPBE.RRKJ3</div><div>BEGIN_POSITIONS</div><div>FIRST_IMAGE</div><div>ATOMIC_POSITIONS { bohr }</div><div>H   -4.56670009      0.00000000      0.00000000  1  0  0</div><div>H    0.00000000      0.00000000      0.00000000  0  0  0</div><div>H    1.55776676      0.00000000      0.00000000  1  0  0</div><div>LAST_IMAGE</div><div>ATOMIC_POSITIONS { bohr }</div><div>H   -1.55776676      0.00000000      0.00000000</div><div>H    0.00000000      0.00000000      0.00000000</div><div>H    4.56670009      0.00000000      0.00000000</div><div>END_POSITIONS</div><div>K_POINTS { gamma }</div><div>CELL_PARAMETERS { bohr }</div><div>  12.00000  0.00000  0.00000</div><div>   0.00000  5.00000  0.00000</div><div>   0.00000  0.00000  5.00000</div><div>END_ENGINE_INPUT</div><div>END</div></div><div><br></div>