[CP2K-user] the specified OLD file cannot be opened.

[Matt W]

Hello, 

you do not want to try and include comments on the line with the 
EXTERNAL_FILE. 

As you have written it the restart file is called ' abc-1.restart  #  Needs 
to match project name above  ' (which is a legal Linux filename). This file 
does not exist. OLD is the FORTRAN term for already existing.

Remove the comment and it should work OK.

Matt

On Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 1:40:52 PM UTC y... at gmail.com wrote:

> If I add ext_restart shown below for restart and run the input file, the 
> following error message appears.
>
> &EXT_RESTART
>   EXTERNAL_FILE abc-1.restart  #  Needs to match project name above
>  &END
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The specified OLD file <abc-1.restart  #  Needs to match project *
>  *  \___/     name above> cannot be opened.  
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> abc-1.restart file is located in the same directory and my cp2k version is 
> 6.10.
> It is difficult to know what's the problem with it.
>
> Restart is a basic operation and its failure is embarrassing.
> What things should cause it? What's the meaning of "OLD" file at the error 
> message?
>
> Thanks.
>  Luke
>
>
>
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