linear dependent basis

[Elena Jakubikova]

Thank you for your reply. The lowest eigenvalue in my output file was
about 7d-4. By the end I was able to make the calculation run by
specifying nosym in the input file. I wonder if this behavior is due to
the fact that I am augmenting the basis set with functions not
centered on nuclei.

Elena Jakubikova
Department of Chemistry
Colorado State University

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Peter Knowles wrote:

> The error message that you see is certainly driven by the lowest
> eigenvalue of the basis overlap being less than 1.0d-8, and you will
> find the print of the eigenvalues so tested immediately above the
> error message. If this isn't the case, I guess further progress can
> come only if you give your input file so that somebody can try to
> reproduce it. In principle the 10^{-8} threshold could be made
> adjustable, but I wonder if there is any case with a more singular
> metric than this for which one could really solve the SCF equations in
> 64-bit arithmetic.
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