[Pw_forum] "cannot open xml_recover file for writing"

[Ari P Seitsonen]

Dear Shu Xu, Paolo et al,

   I have had exactly the same problem in my own system, with the message

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
      from ph_writefile  : error #        25
      cannot open xml_recover file for writing
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

when using v4.1 or v4.1.1, and a core dump when using the CVS version of 
Monday. The machine I'm running on is an IBM Power6, with xlf compiler 
(I tried both versions 12.1 and 11.1 of xlf), and if I read the correct 
location in the reference manual of XLF Fortran, the error code 25 would 
correspond to

25  RECL= specifier omitted on an OPEN statement for a direct file.

But I don't see where RECL's would be used for the XML files...

   Maybe some one can help (us) more. The job worked fine if it was given 
more time so that it could finish without a need for 'recover'.

     Greetings,

        apsi

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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Paolo Giannozzi wrote:

> shu xu wrote:
>
>>      from ph_writefile  : error #        37
>>      cannot open xml_recover file for writing
>
> it is hard to say what happened, since restarting from
> interrupted calculations may go wrong in many ways and for
> many reasons (in addition to possible bugs). The message
> itself means that either the file wasn't there, or it
> wasn't writable.
>
> P.
> -- 
> Paolo Giannozzi, Democritos and University of Udine, Italy
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