<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=GB18030"><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Dear QE developer,</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Here I am reporting a bug in neb. It exits in QE6.8 and the developer version rather than the old versions. The problem is the output file stopped at the first iteration and did not get updated, though the calculations were still running. Moreover, the processes can not be killed by the command "kill" +PID. What's the way out?</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">(I am using the latest oneAPI environment for the FORTRAN compiler and parallel environment . )<br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">... ...</span></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"> string_method = neb </font></div><font size="2" face="Arial"> restart_mode = from_scratch <br> opt_scheme = broyden <br> num_of_images = 9 <br> nstep_path = 198 <br> CI_scheme = auto <br> first_last_opt = T <br> use_freezing = F <br> ds = 1.0000 a.u. <br> k_max = 0.7000 a.u. <br> k_min = 0.1000 a.u. <br> suggested k_max = 0.6169 a.u. <br> suggested k_min = 0.0881 a.u. <br> path_thr = 0.0500 eV / A <br> <br></font><div><font size="2" face="Arial"> ------------------------------ iteration 1 ------------------------------ <br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"> tcpu = 0.6 self-consistency for image 1<br></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 102);">ufu.neb.inp:</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 102);"><font size="2">BEGIN
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color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><b>Dr. Jibiao Li, </b></font></i></div><div style=""><i><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><b>Department of Material Science and Engineering</b></font></i></div><div style=""><i><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><b>Yangtze Normal University</b></font></i></div><div style=""><i><font size="2"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><b><span style="text-align: left; text-transform: none; line-height: 21px; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent;">Juxian Dadao 16#,</span> Fuling, Chongqing, China</b></font></font></i></div><div style=""><i style=""><font size="2" color="#0000ff" style="" face="Arial"><b style="">Email: jibiaoli@yznu.edu.cn, jibiaoli@foxmail.com, jibiao.li@hotmail.com</b></font></i></div>
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