I also have this problem with becke populations on my NWCHEM 6.6 that was compiled and installed a few days ago.
0:0:CDFT: multipliers go over limit:: -1
(rank:0 hostname:ca096 pid:22555):ARMCI DASSERT fail. ../../ga-5-4/armci/src/common/armci.c:ARMCI_Error():208 cond:0
CDFT: multipliers go over limit 0