[Pw_forum] Temporary directory supposedly non existent or not writable

[Sylvian Cadars]

Hi,
I recently started to get the same systematic error on all calculations 
that I am running, whereas the exact same calcuation was running 
successfully before, and I can't figure out what happened in the 
meantime.  The error is the following:
The calculation crashes with error message (in a CRASH file) before 
anything can be written in the output file:

 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
     task #        12
     from outdir:  : error #         1
     /work/scadars/espresso_tmp/jobID/ non existent or non writable
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

However the specified outdir directory, created with the environment 
variable ESPRESSO_TMPDIR actually DOES exist and IS writable (I even got 
the same error when forcing it to be writable for u,g,o, and a).
The same error occurs if I define the outdir directory in the input file as:
outdir = '/work/scadars/espresso_tmp/'
and again,  /work/scadars/espresso_tmp/ exists and is writable, since 
"ls -l /work/scadars/" gives:

drwxrwxrwx 19 scadars dev 32768 sep  1 16:32 espresso_tmp

On the other hand, the program runs successfully if I use the current 
directory as the temporary directory (by omitting definitions of outdir 
and ESPRESSO_TMPDIR) or if I use a temporary directory located in my 
home directory...

Could you please help me figure out what is going wrong here?
Thanks.
Best regards.



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