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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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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> users <users-bounces@lists.quantum-espresso.org> on behalf of Giovanni Cantele <giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 5, 2018 4:34:44 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [QE-users] band_structure_calculation</font>
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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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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;" class="">still
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<div class="">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 class="">
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Error in routine bands (1):<br class="">
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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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