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    <p><font face="Quattrocento Sans">Dear all,</font></p>
    <p><font face="Quattrocento Sans">After successfully running a
        phonon calculation restricted to the first two irreducible
        representations and including Born effective charges calculation
        I set a restart calculation aiming to timing execution for
        continuing calculations on a grid. However the restart
        calculation starts well, I am invariably having davcio errors,
        as described below.<br>
      </font></p>
    <p><font face="Quattrocento Sans">Here is the first ph.x input file,
        running of which went well up to completion,</font></p>
    <p><font face="Quattrocento Sans"> &inputph<br>
          tr2_ph=1.0d-16,<br>
          prefix='0gpa',<br>
          ldisp=.true.,<br>
          nq1=1, nq2=1, nq3=1,<br>
          lqdir=.true.,<br>
          recover=.true.,<br>
          low_directory_check=.true.,<br>
          start_irr=1,<br>
          last_irr=2,<br>
          outdir='/scratch/files/',<br>
          fildyn='0gpa.dyn.xml'<br>
         /</font></p>
    <p><font face="Quattrocento Sans">and here is the ph.x input file
        aiming to restart the calculation for just the third irrep,<br>
      </font></p>
    <p><font face="Quattrocento Sans"> &inputph<br>
          tr2_ph=1.0d-16,<br>
          prefix='0gpa',<br>
          ldisp=.true.,<br>
          nq1=1, nq2=1, nq3=1,<br>
          lqdir=.true.,<br>
          recover=.true.,<br>
          low_directory_check=.true.,<br>
          start_irr=3,<br>
          last_irr=3,<br>
          outdir='/scratch/files/',<br>
          fildyn='0gpa.dyn.xml'<br>
         /</font></p>
    <p><font face="Quattrocento Sans">After a while, the code complains
        about reading .prd files (these files are present in the scratch
        forlder, but their sizes is 0 kB). This is an excerpt from the
        final part of the output file:</font></p>
    <p><font face="Quattrocento Sans">...</font></p>
    <p><font face="Quattrocento Sans">           atom    132   O<br>
              Ex  (       -2.70236        1.79240       -1.48478 )<br>
              Ey  (        1.35871       -1.59983        1.00027 )<br>
              Ez  (       -1.63036        1.25886       -2.41541 )<br>
        <br>
        <br>
             Representation #  3 mode #   3<br>
        <br>
             Self-consistent Calculation<br>
        <br>
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
             Error in routine davcio (25):<br>
             error while reading from file
        "/scratch/files/_ph0/0gpa.prd82"<br>
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
        <br>
             stopping ...<br>
        <br>
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
             Error in routine davcio (25):<br>
             error while reading from file
        "/scratch/files/_ph0/0gpa.prd20"<br>
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
        <br>
             stopping ...<br>
      </font></p>
    <p><font face="Quattrocento Sans">The calculation is being running
        with MPI-enabled ph.x and the error occurs no matter the number
        of processes is different of it is the same as in the previous
        ph.x run. Every test was executed with a fresh and unique temporary
        directory, whose files where copied from the  scratch folder as
        left after the </font><font face="Quattrocento Sans"><font
          face="Quattrocento Sans">successful ph.x run</font> for the
        two first irreps. I am using the master branch of QE from
        <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/QEF/q-e">https://github.com/QEF/q-e</a>. Tests performed with earlier
        versions of QE-6.2 gave the same error. <br>
      </font></p>
    <p><font face="Quattrocento Sans">I would be glad to hear any
        suggestion on how to proceed with the ph.x restart calculation
        while avoiding these errors.</font></p>
    <p><font face="Quattrocento Sans">Best regards,</font></p>
    <p><font face="Quattrocento Sans">Claudio<br>
      </font></p>
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Claudio A. Perottoni

Universidade de Caxias do Sul
Rua Francisco Getulio Vargas, 1130
95070-560 Caxias do Sul - RS - Brazil

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