[Pw_forum] Another problem with bands.x "reading band namelist"

Paolo Giannozzi p.giannozzi at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 14:23:18 CET 2016


Use "bands.x -i input-file", not "bands.x < input-file"; check that there
are no funny characters in the file and that all quotes are quotes and not
something else

Paolo

Il 26/dic/2016 01:47 PM, "Imam Setiawan" <tomieyes6 at yahoo.com> ha scritto:

> Dear PW_forum members,
>
> I run into an error that seems to be already discussed in this forum. This
> is about "reading band namelist" error when trying to run bands.x. I have
> already tried solutions suggested in the other posts such as making the
> prefix and outdir the same as the pw.x's input files but it is not solved.
> Since all questions related to this problem that i have found pertain
> earlier version of QE (I used QE 6.0), could it be version-related problem?
> My input for bands.x is the following
>
> &bands
>    outdir = './work/',
>    prefix='C_hexa_scf',
>    filband='C_hexa_band.out',
>    lsym=.true.
> /
>
> and the error I got is
>
> Program BANDS v.6.0 (svn rev. 13079) starts on 25Dec2016 at 22:44:23
>
>      This program is part of the open-source Quantum ESPRESSO suite
>      for quantum simulation of materials; please cite
>          "P. Giannozzi et al., J. Phys.:Condens. Matter 21 395502 (2009);
>           URL http://www.quantum-espresso.org",
>      in publications or presentations arising from this work. More details
> at
>      http://www.quantum-espresso.org/quote
>
>      Serial multi-threaded version, running on    1 processor cores
>
>  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>      Error in routine bands (1):
>      reading bands namelist
>  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
>      stopping ...
>
> I really appreciate anyone's help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Wahyutama
> PhD Student
> RIKEN Saitama, Japan
>
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