gamess restart

From: pop14848 <post &$at$& eike-huebner.de>
Subject: gamess restart
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:31:09 +0100

Hi,
 Due to a power failure a 4 node system running gamess (actual source
 distribution, linux) crashed near the end of a long (~3-4weeks) numerical
 hessian calculation. In fact it should be possible to restart this run using the
 $VIB group and the punched ircdata. But trying to insert the irc-data into the
 $VIB group an start the calculation returns
  **** ERROR, READING $VIB GROUP.
 I tried to set COORDS=CART and UNIQUE, I tried with and without a free line of
 the irc-data file before the $END tag - without any difference. I have found the
 same problem on a 3 node cluster running PC-GAMESS 6.3 with winnt 4.0 but
 thought it was a PC-GAMESS problem which it is obviously not.
 Are there any suggestions or did I simply do something wrong?
 Thanks in advance
 eike huebner