cdft issue


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Hi all,
I am doing cdft calculations and keep on getting errors like "CDFT: unable to improve the multipliers". I am wondering if I have made some mistakes when setting up the input file. The system i am looking into is a charged system, the overall charge is 2+. This charge is constrained on an iron atom in the system. Can anyone give me some hints about this? Thanks...Below is part of my input file:

charge 2 <the overall charge of the system>

    I use the following basis sets:

basis
  • library 6-31g except Fe
Fe library lanl2dz_ecp
end

ecp
Fe library lanl2dz_ecp
end

    and in the dft block i put the following keywords:

dft
mult 1 <also tried mult 3, 5...but they all lead to the same error>
iterations 1000
convergence nolevelshifting
cdft 16 16 charge 2.0 <the sequential number of Fe in geometry block is 16>
end

task dft optimize

   The following error is reported which terminates the calculation after one iteration:

convergence iter energy DeltaE RMS-Dens Diis-err time
---------------- ----- ----------------- --------- --------- ---------  ------
d= 0,ls=0.0,diis 1 -1705.7513129851 -6.35D+03 4.87D-02 2.73D+01 38.1
CDFT multipliers:
1 -0.3070026559
iter = 8
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CDFT: Unable to improve the multipliers 0
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CDFT: Unable to improve the multipliers 0
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current input line :
0:
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An error occured in the Runtime Database

thanks in advance!