Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Common error messages in GAMESS: error reading IDUM

 **** ERROR READING VARIABLE IDUM     CHECK COLUMN  1
H 1.0 -0.08386 2.76975 0.70945
....V....1....V....2....V....3....V....4....V....5....V....6....V....7....V....8

This error message was produced by the following input file. Can you see what's wrong?

$contrl runtyp=optimize $end
$basis gbasis=pm3 $end
$data
Title
C1
N 7.0 -0.39094 1.95659 0.14008
H 1.0 0.38874 1.60529 -0.40413
H 1.0 -0.08386 2.76975 0.70945
H 1.0 -0.72485 1.22934 0.80007
H 1.0 -1.14035 2.30329 -0.48754
O 8.0 -0.64579 0.16732 2.03360
H 1.0 -0.26212 -0.73042 2.10569
H 1.0 -1.00756 0.26750 2.93979
O 8.0 -1.80535 3.31298 -1.59619
H 1.0 -1.39440 3.81065 -2.33214
H 1.0 -2.74148 3.57968 -1.71559
O 8.0 0.26578 4.05264 1.54485
H 1.0 1.03270 4.27032 2.11226
H 1.0 -0.26135 4.87344 1.64760
$end
The answer is the missing space in front of the $basis, and the solution is to add a space in front of it, just like for $contrl and $basis.

Why does GAMESS complain about a line in $data when the problem is with $basis? The reason is that it is possible to specify a basis set for each atom in $data, so GAMESS tries to read this information if no $basis group is found.

The error message would clearly benefit from the line: "Did you mean to specify a $basis group?"

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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ECP POTENTIALS
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**** ERROR READING VARIABLE IZCORE CHECK COLUMN 16
5 ----- d potential -----
....V....1....V....2....V....3....V....4....V....5....V....6....V....7....V....8
EXECUTION OF GAMESS TERMINATED -ABNORMALLY- AT Sun Mar 10 19:31:38 2013
580000 WORDS OF DYNAMIC MEMORY USED
STEP CPU TIME = 0.02 TOTAL CPU TIME = 0.0 ( 0.0 MIN)
TOTAL WALL CLOCK TIME= 0.0 SECONDS, CPU UTILIZATION IS 100.02%

job aborted:
[ranks] message

[0] process exited without calling finalize

[1] terminated

---- error analysis -----


What I can do for this error, please help