[Pw_forum] Error in routine bfgs (1): dE0s is positive which should never happen

[Paolo Giannozzi]

Once the error is detected, the code stops immediately and prints nothing
useful. Where do you see that there are no cell parameters? And when:
during a variable-cell calculation, or also (or only) in a fixed-cell one?
If I remember correctly, cell parameters are reprinted on putput at each
step in the former case, never in the latter.

Unfortunately the code performing the various MD and structural
optimizations is rather obscure and it is not straightforward to figure out
how to modify it.

Paolo

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Alaska Subedi <asubedi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Paolo,
>
> Sorry to resurrect this after a long time.
>
> This problem is innocuous but annoying nonetheless. I am using QE to
> relax structures generated by USPEX. For around five percent of the
> structures, I get this error. When this error happens, pw.x exits by
> only printing atomic positions but not the cell parameters. This gives
> problems to USPEX.
>
> I tried to find which call to output_tau is responsible for this, to
> no avail. I'd greatly appreciate if someone can point me to a
> modification that will make the code output both the cell_parameters
> and atomic_positions during exit after this error.
>
> Thanks,
> Alaska
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Paolo Giannozzi
> <paolo.giannozzi at uniud.it> wrote:
> > This kind of errors invariably happens when you are very close
> > to the minimum and you have some numerical noise on forces. It
> > is useless in my opinion to insist: your system is sufficiently
> > relaxed
> >
> > Paolo
> >
> > On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 13:29 +0530, amitharani wrote:
> >> Hi
> >> I am getting an error { Error in routine bfgs (1): dE0s is positive
> >> which should never happen }. The output file is attached for your kind
> >> perusal.This is the 2nd time I am getting the same error consecutively.
> >> I followed what Nick had suggested on the pwforum to take the relaxed
> >> co-ordinates, make a new input file and resubmit, but it didn't
> >> work.Thanks.
> >>
> >>
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Univ. Udine, via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy
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