[Wien] Which Error (?) in W2Web

[Fecher, Gerhard]

Dear Gavin,
thanks for the answer, was helpful on a rainy sunday afternoon.
It was the most stupid mistake, I guess you know which one (I wanted to do only one scf cycle for test purpose).

The "bug" was sitting 20 cm in front of my monitor. 

Ciao
Gerhard

DEEP THOUGHT in D. Adams; Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you,
is that you have never actually known what the question is."

====================================
Dr. Gerhard H. Fecher
Institut of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry
Johannes Gutenberg - University
55099 Mainz
and
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
01187 Dresden
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Von: Wien [wien-bounces at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at] im Auftrag von Gavin Abo [gsabo at crimson.ua.edu]
Gesendet: Sonntag, 13. November 2016 17:40
An: A Mailing list for WIEN2k users
Betreff: Re: [Wien] Which Error (?) in W2Web

grep "making" $WIENROOT/makescratch

The above terminal command should return in the output:

echo making $scratch directory

I looks like $scratch might have somehow got set to: -i

Since the mkdir command does not have a -i option, it returns that
"invalid option" error.

I would first try checking the contents of scratch variable in the
terminal/script environment and also the "Scratch Directory" box in
w2web under run_SCF.

Second, I would try adding -x to makescratch_lapw to see if the long
output could give a better idea were the problem might be coming
(similar to what was mentioned for troubleshooting csh scripts like
x_lapw [
http://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg07734.html
]).

On 11/13/2016 8:58 AM, Fecher, Gerhard wrote:
> On one, and only on one, of my computers I receive:
>
> making -i directory
> mkdir: invalid option -- 'i'
> Try `mkdir --help' for more information.
> ERROR: option 1 does not exist!
>
> when I try to start the scf from w2web, has anyone an idea what that might be ?
>
> Ciao
> Gerhard
>
> DEEP THOUGHT in D. Adams; Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
> "I think the problem, to be quite honest with you,
> is that you have never actually known what the question is."
>
> ====================================
> Dr. Gerhard H. Fecher
> Institut of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry
> Johannes Gutenberg - University
> 55099 Mainz
> and
> Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
> 01187 Dresden
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