<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Giovanni<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 5 Mar 2018, at 16:25, Amin Mirzai <<a href="mailto:amin.mirzai@mek.lth.se" class="">amin.mirzai@mek.lth.se</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">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 the same error appears</span> !!!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks anyway,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Amin<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><hr tabindex="-1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline-block; width: 986.859375px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>users <<a href="mailto:users-bounces@lists.quantum-espresso.org" class="">users-bounces@lists.quantum-espresso.org</a>> on behalf of Paolo Giannozzi <<a href="mailto:p.giannozzi@gmail.com" class="">p.giannozzi@gmail.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, March 5, 2018 4:03:13 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Quantum Espresso users Forum<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [QE-users] band_structure_calculation</font><div class=""> </div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><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=""><br class=""></div>Paolo<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 3:47 PM, Amin Mirzai<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:amin.mirzai@mek.lth.se" target="_blank" class="">amin.mirzai@mek.lth.se</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div id="m_-4142322469075425751divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Dear QE users,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Does anybody have any idea regarding following error:</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><div class=""> %%%%%%%%%%%%%<br class=""> Error in routine bands (1):<br class=""> reading bands namelist<br class=""> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%</div>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.<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">here is the input file for the bands.x:</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><div class="">&BANDS<br class=""> prefix = "eu",<br class=""> outdir = './out',<br class=""> lsym = .true.,<br class=""> filband = 'eu.dat'<br class=""> /</div><br class=""><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">With kind regards,<br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="m_-4142322469075425751Signature" class=""><div id="m_-4142322469075425751divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Amin Mirzai,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">PhD candidate</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="">Dept. of Maskinteknologi</span>,<br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Lund University, </div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><div class="">P.O. 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