rt-tddft silently refuses to restart,


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Hello everybody,
I am trying to restart a rt-tddft calculation, but the calculation starts from the scratch without any reason given why so in the stdio output. The start/restart input file is a copy of the example in the documentation. Please see attached input. I've checked that the checkpoint files and the db is accessible. What is going wrong?
Best,
Baris
RESTART test
TITLE "test"
memory heap 100 mb stack 4000 mb global 64000 mb
GEOMETRY "test" noautoz
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END

BASIS "very large" SPHERICAL
 * library aug-cc-pvtz
END
BASIS "large" SPHERICAL
 * library aug-cc-pvdz
END
BASIS "medium" SPHERICAL
 * library 6-31+g*
END
BASIS "small" SPHERICAL
 * library sto-3g
END

echo

###################Production run
set "ao basis" "large"
set geometry "large"
SCF
 vectors output test-scf.movecs
 semidirect memsize 200000000 filesize 0
END

DFT
 iterations 100
 XC b3lyp
 vectors input  test-scf.movecs
 vectors output test-dft.movecs
END
task scf energy
task dft energy

unset rt_tddft:*
rt_tddft
  tmax 1500.0
  dt 0.1
  propagator magnus
  nrestarts 2000
  tag "kick_x"
  load vectors "test-dft.movecs"
  field "kick"
    type delta
    polarization x
    max 0.0001
  end

  excite "large" with "kick"
 end
task dft rt_tddft

unset rt_tddft:*
rt_tddft
  tmax 1500.0
  dt 0.1
  propagator magnus
  nrestarts 2000
  load vectors "test-dft.movecs"

  tag "kick_y"

  field "kick"
    type delta
    polarization y
    max 0.0001
  end

  excite "large" with "kick"
 end
task dft rt_tddft

unset rt_tddft:*
rt_tddft
  tmax 1500.0
  dt 0.1
  propagator magnus
  nrestarts 2000
  load vectors "test-dft.movecs"

  tag "kick_z"

  field "kick"
    type delta
    polarization z
    max 0.0001
  end

  excite "large" with "kick"
 end
task dft rt_tddft
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Dr. O. Baris Malcioglu,
University of Liege,
Bât. B5 Physique de la matière condensée
allée du 6 Août 17
4000 Liège 1
Belgique

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successful restart
With the following modification to restart file, I was able to restart the calculation.
RESTART test
TITLE "test"
memory heap 100 mb stack 4000 mb global 64000 mb
task dft rt_tddft
unset rt_tddft:*
rt_tddft
  tmax 1500.0
  dt 0.1
  propagator magnus
  nrestarts 2000
  load vectors "test-dft.movecs"

  tag "kick_y"

  field "kick"
    type delta
    polarization y
    max 0.0001
  end

  excite "large" with "kick"
 end
task dft rt_tddft

unset rt_tddft:*
rt_tddft
  tmax 1500.0
  dt 0.1
  propagator magnus
  nrestarts 2000
  load vectors "test-dft.movecs"

  tag "kick_z"

  field "kick"
    type delta
    polarization z
    max 0.0001
  end

  excite "large" with "kick"
 end
task dft rt_tddft


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