From owner-chemistry {*at*} ccl.net Mon Oct 25 11:11:00 2010 From: "Victor Rosas Garcia rosas.victor=gmail.com" To: CCL Subject: CCL: NBO+ECP GAMESS error Message-Id: <-42999-101025110109-22893-3OIKaVGVXUgZw/fRa4qjUw|,|server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: Victor Rosas Garcia Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:00:52 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: Victor Rosas Garcia [rosas.victor],[gmail.com] Hello everybody, I am trying to run a Natural Energy Decomposition Analysis on an RHF/LANL2DZdp wavefunction using GAMESS VERSION = 25 MAR 2010 (R2) but the job crashes.  The smallest case I have found that reproduces the error is as follows:  $CONTRL SCFTYP=RHF RUNTYP=ENERGY COORD=ZMT NOSYM=1 $END  $CONTRL UNITS=ANGS PP=READ EXETYP=RUN $END  $INTGRL NOPK=1 $END  $BASIS EXTFIL=.TRUE. GBASIS=LANL2DZD $END  $NBO $END  $DEL NEDA END       NEDA (1,2) (3) END  $END  $DATA LiCl..H2O...rhf/lanl2dzdp C1  LI  CL   1   2.0993427  O    1   1.9020655   2  179.9605863  H    3    .9500458   1  126.3708465  2  178.7919157  H    3    .9500458   4  107.2871778  1 -179.9941078  $END  $ECP   NONE   CL-ECP GEN   10   2   5           ----- d   potential            -----         -10.0000000        1             94.8130000          66.2729170        2            165.6440000         -28.9685950        2             30.8317000         -12.8663370        2             10.5841000          -1.7102170        2              3.7704000   5           ----- s-d potential            -----           3.0000000        0            128.8391000          12.8528510        1            120.3786000         275.6723980        2             63.5622000         115.6777120        2             18.0695000          35.0606090        2              3.8142000   6           ----- p-d potential            -----           5.0000000        0            216.5263000           7.4794860        1             46.5723000         613.0320000        2            147.4685000         280.8006850        2             48.9869000         107.8788240        2             13.2096000          15.3439560        2              3.1831000   NONE   NONE   NONE  $END which is basically an example from the NBO manual modified to use the LANL2DZdp basis set.  If I use the 6-31G* basis set, no problem.  The job fails with the following error message:  --------------   Fragment  1:  --------------           ECP ANGULAR INTS.........     0.00 SECONDS  *** ERROR *** IN -DAWRIT- ROUTINE ON NODE   0  DAWRIT HAS REQUESTED A RECORD WITH LENGTH DIFFERENT THAN BEFORE - ABORT FORCED.  DAF RECORD    92 NEW LENGTH =         0 OLD LENGTH =       162  EXECUTION OF GAMESS TERMINATED -ABNORMALLY- AT Mon Oct 25 08:16:00 2010       580000  WORDS OF DYNAMIC MEMORY USED  STEP CPU TIME =     0.00 TOTAL CPU TIME =        1.1 (    0.0 MIN)  TOTAL WALL CLOCK TIME=        1.4 SECONDS, CPU UTILIZATION IS  82.22%  ddikick.x: application process 0 quit unexpectedly.  ddikick.x: Sending kill signal to DDI processes.  ddikick.x: Execution terminated due to error(s). so the NBO analysis has no problem, it fails only on reaching the NEDA part.  Looking through the CCL archives, I found a message from 2002 (http://ftp.ccl.net/chemistry/resources/messages/2002/05/27.005-dir/index.html) with an almost identical problem, but I have not located any responses to it. Any ideas? Victor