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<p>No, not really... It was QE 6.1 ! </p>
<p>anyway it has finally solved, I have just replaced current version with the most recent version that is QE-6.2.1.</p>
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<p>Thanks for responses,</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 5, 2018 5:42:57 PM<br>
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<div dir="auto">If it is a very old version, you may have to use &input instead of &bands<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 16:57 Amin Mirzai <<a href="mailto:amin.mirzai@mek.lth.se">amin.mirzai@mek.lth.se</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p>This is very strange, I have tried it again by constructing the same thing but in a new file... still the same error! maybe there is something wrong with the QE version i use...by the way I have already tried the quotation marks trick, it is still the same!!!</p>
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on behalf of Giovanni Cantele <<a href="mailto:giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it</a>><br>
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<div>unless I did something wrong, your input works for me. Maybe you have some hidden special character in the file that has not been pasted in the e-mail?
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<div>On 5 Mar 2018, at 16:25, Amin Mirzai <<a href="mailto:amin.mirzai@mek.lth.se" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">amin.mirzai@mek.lth.se</a>> wrote:</div>
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i tried it.. I even tried it on different machines with different names, with both serial and parallel commands but <span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px">still
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<div>There is nothing apparently wrong in your data. Try to remove one by one the variables. If running in parallel, try to run on a single processor. Try "bands.x -in file-name"<br>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Dear QE users,</div>
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Error in routine bands (1):<br>
reading bands namelist<br>
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This error occurs while I try to plot band structure of the chosen material. All other calculations (scf and nscf) perform correctly. However, when it comes to bands.x calculation, it fails.
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<div>&BANDS<br>
prefix = "eu",<br>
outdir = './out',<br>
lsym = .true.,<br>
filband = 'eu.dat'<br>
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