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 ________________________________________ Von: Wien [wien-boun...@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at] im Auftrag von Gavin Abo [gs...@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 _______________________________________________ Wien mailing list Wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/wien SEARCH the MAILING-LIST at: http://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/index.html _______________________________________________ Wien mailing list Wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/wien SEARCH the MAILING-LIST at: http://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/index.html