bgj get scf dens: could not read mo vectors


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Dear NWChem community,

I am trying to perform an excited state optimisation with the following input:

start geometry_S1

title "DP-Mes, excited state spectrum calculation"

echo

memory total 4000 mb

geometry
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end

basis spherical
  • library cc-pVDZ
end

dft
xc xcamb88 1.00 lyp 1.0 hfexch 1.00
cam 0.29 cam_alpha 0.0 cam_beta 1.0
direct
grid nodisk
vectors input singlets.movecs output geom_S1.movecs
iterations 500
end

driver
maxiter 100
end

tddft
notriplet
nroots 1
target 1
targetsym a
maxiter 50
civecs
grad
root 1
end
end

task tddft optimize

This results in the following error after some iterations:

 Entering Davidson iterations
Restricted singlet excited states

 Iter   NTrls   NConv    DeltaV     DeltaE      Time   
---- ------ ------ --------- --------- ---------
1 1 0 0.27E+00 0.10+100 34.5
2 3 0 0.79E-01 0.28E-01 35.9
movecs_read: failing reading from ./geom_S1.movecs
bgj_get_scf_dens movecs output =
bgj_get_scf_dens movecs output =
./geom_S1.movecs



bgj_get_scf_dens: could not read mo vectors 917

The number of successful iterations before the error appears, seems to depend on the number of used CPUs. I have also encountered similar errors when performing DFT optimisations or TDDFT energy calculations. Any hints on how to solve this error would be welcome, thank you.