<div>Dear Molpro users,</div>
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<div>I have encountered an confused problem several times. The converge status of CASSCF calculation is related with the execution time. For example. I do a CASSCF computation with the following input:</div>
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<div> ***,title the test of molpro<br> gprint,orbital,basis,civector<br> memory,250,m<br> geometry={<br> Sc<br> Cr 1 Rmn<br> }<br> basis<br> spdf,Sc,Bauschlicher-ANO<br> C;<br> spdf,Cr,Bauschlicher-ANO<br> C;<br> end<br>
Rmn=2.0 ang<br> uhf;<br> occ,15,5,5,1<br> closed,11,4,4,0<br> wf,45,1,7<br> multi;<br> occ,16,6,6,2<br> closed,10,4,4,0<br> core,10,4,4,0<br> wf,45,1,7<br> orbprint,5<br> maxiter,30<br>---</div>
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<div>When the job was run at Jan 27, 2006, it is successful, the CASSCF section converged. But after that, the job failed with error message:</div>
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<div> ITER. MIC NCI NEG ENERGY(VAR) ENERGY(PROJ) ENERGY CHANGE GRAD(0) GRAD(ORB) GRAD(CI) STEP TIME<br> <br> <br> NON-ZERO P-SPACE GRADIENT. LARGEST VALUE: 0.17D+02<br> Probably the p-space is not closed under symmetry operations. This can happen if
<br> the initial orbitals are not symmetry adapted or if there is root-flipping between states of<br> different symmetry. Try different p-space threshold, or select p-space configurations manually.<br> The check can be bypassed by setting thresh,pspace=thr to a larger value.
<br> Non-zero p-space gradient elements smaller than thr are ignored.<br>"</div>
<div> I ran it several times after Jan 27, 2006, but it all failed with the same error message. Now I change the system clock to the "right time" Jan 27, 2006, it runs OK. Is it interesting? but it is a disaster for an ab initio calculation.
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<div>There are several other examples like this before, it is not a unique incident. Is this a bug of Molpro ? How to overcome it? Thank you.</div>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
<div>Wang Bingwu</div>
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<div>Chemistry Department, Peking University</div>
<div>Beijing, China</div>
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