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7.4 pw.x stops with error while reading data

There is an error in the input data, typically: Unfortunately with most compilers the code just reports "Error while reading XXX namelist" and no further useful information. Here are some other more subtle sources of trouble: Both may cause the code to crash with rather mysterious error messages. If none of the above applies and the code stops at the first namelist ("control") and you are running in parallel: your MPI libraries might not be properly configured to allow input redirection, see the previous item above this one.


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Paolo Giannozzi 2009-10-01