This might also happen if "wf_collect = .FALSE." in your scf input (.TRUE. is 
default).

On Sat, Jan 2, 2021, at 9:24 AM, Paolo Giannozzi wrote:
> It seems to me that your hack should work. Unfortunately the I/O of the 
> phonon code is quite confusing and it is hard to figure out what is not 
> working where and why. Apparently the code tries to read the charge 
> density of the unperturbed system, once again (it is read and stored in 
> memory at the very beginning) and from a different place from the 
> standard one.
> 
> Paolo
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 7:47 PM Baer, Bradly 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> >  I am experiencing a crash when working with ph.x across multiple nodes.  
> > Input and output files are attached.  The first q-point appears to be 
> > calculated correctly, but the code crashes when attempting to start 
> > calculating the second q-point. A file "charge-density" is said to be 
> > missing but "charge-density.dat" exists when I manually inspect the files.  
> > As there are 16 reports that the file cannot be found, I am assuming that 
> > this is an issue with me using multiple nodes (each node has 16 cores).  A 
> > general description of my computing environment and workflow follows:
> > 
> > I am using SLURM on a cluster.  I have two nodes assigned to my job, each 
> > with a local scratch drive that is not visible to the other node.  I also 
> > have access to a gpfs networked drive that both nodes can access.  To 
> > improve performance, I am attempting to perform all calculations using the 
> > local scratch drives. All input files are copied from the gpfs networked 
> > drive to the local drive on each node before the initial pw.x calculation.  
> > After the pw.x calculation, a small script copies the output files 
> > (pwscf.save folder and pwscf.xml) from the first node to the networked 
> > drive and then a second script copies them from the networked drive to the 
> > second node before starting the phonon code.
> > 
> > I am open to any suggestions as this solution has been somewhat hacked 
> > together after performance using the gpfs networked drives proved 
> > incredibly poor.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Brad
> > 
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > Bradly Baer
> > Graduate Research Assistant, Walker Lab
> > Interdisciplinary Materials Science
> > Vanderbilt University
> > 
> > 
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