bcc Cr does not have a free internal structural parameter. The atoms are "fixed" at (0,0,0) and (.5,.5,.5) and you must not run min_lapw!
All you optimize is the volume (lattice parameter) in this case. Roberto Iglesias schrieb: > Dear all > > I am running an optimization on a pretty simple system, pure bcc Cr. I use > the optimize utility from w2web, > though I've also tried to initialize the optimization through x optimize. The > calculation runs well for the > first mini cycle, but then crashes, showing in the dayfile: > > > stop error > > error: command /home/l_iglesias/WIEN2k/mini mini.def failed > > mini (08:58:24) 0.001u 0.002s 0:00.13 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 8pf+0w > > stop > > In STDOUT: > > ERROR status in k8000_vol__-5.0 > mini 0804AE11 Unknown Unknown Unknown > libc.so.6 00911DE3 Unknown Unknown Unknown > mini 0804AED5 Unknown Unknown Unknown > mini 0805B923 Unknown Unknown Unknown > mini 08050BBD Unknown Unknown Unknown > mini 08146AAC Unknown Unknown Unknown > mini 0812E86E Unknown Unknown Unknown > mini 0812EB3E Unknown Unknown Unknown > mini 0815B3C5 Unknown Unknown Unknown > mini 08185841 Unknown Unknown Unknown > mini 0818716E Unknown Unknown Unknown > Image PC Routine Line Source > forrtl: severe (24): end-of-file during read, unit 15, file > /home/l_iglesias/WIEN2k/roberto/tests/bccAFCr_2at/optimize/k8000/k8000.finM > > stop > > I checked the k8000.finM file and it only shows a number in the first line: > -4203.567940 > > which is exactly the total energy in the last iteration. > > I tried to check the archives in the mailing list, but did not find anything. > I'm running the latest Wien2k > version, WIEN2k_08.1 (Release 14/12/2007). > > Any suggestions are welcome! > > Thanks in advance > > Roberto -- P.Blaha -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter BLAHA, Inst.f. Materials Chemistry, TU Vienna, A-1060 Vienna Phone: +43-1-58801-15671 FAX: +43-1-58801-15698 Email: blaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at WWW: http://info.tuwien.ac.at/theochem/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------