From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Mon May 30 03:47:00 2016 From: "=?Windows-1252?Q?J=FCrgen_Gr=E4fenstein?= jurgen(~)chem.gu.se" To: CCL Subject: CCL:G: Optimization problem "fname=C:\G09W\Scratch\gxx.scr fd = -1" Message-Id: <-52225-160530034544-8007-+1Of2GYLI9UUWhHe3GEhaw/a\server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: =?Windows-1252?Q?J=FCrgen_Gr=E4fenstein?= Content-ID: <853E9E107F52ED4FAFA7E941ED89FA3A/a\chalmers.se> Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 07:45:35 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: =?Windows-1252?Q?J=FCrgen_Gr=E4fenstein?= [jurgen,chem.gu.se] Dear Naser, To me this sounds as if Gaussian was unable to write the file C:\G09W\Scratch\gxx.scr. Possibly you have no write permission for C:\G09W\Scratch, or the respective disk is full? (scr files may become rather big.) Best regards, Jürgen Gräfenstein — Jürgen Gräfenstein, associate professor (docent) University of Gothenburg Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology SE-412 96 Göteborg e-mail: Jurgen.Grafenstein.:.chem.gu.se ---------- On 2016-05-28, at 9:05 , Naser E. Taha nasertaha90###yahoo.co.uk wrote: > > Sent to CCL by: "Naser E. Taha" [nasertaha90*_*yahoo.co.uk] > Dear All, > > I am trying to optimize a molecule using rb3lyp/6-31++g(d,p) then the > optimization failed and I got this at the end of log file > > Cartesian Forces: Max 0.000481895 RMS 0.000122239 > fname=C:\G09W\Scratch\gxx.scr fd = -1 > > open-new-file > > Any suggestions is appreciated. > > Thank you > > Naser Taha> >