Gaussian errors are not always straightforward to interpret. Something as simple as a "file not found" can seem baffling and cryptic. Here is a collection of errors and their translations:
| Gaussian Error | Translation to English |
|---|---|
| Error termination in NtrErr: ntran open failure returned to fopen. Segmentation fault | Can't open a file. |
| Internal consistency error detected in FileIO for unit 1 I= 4 J=0 I Fail= 1. | Gaussian is limited to 16 GB of scratch space on the 32-bit nodes. |
| Out-of-memory error in routine UFChkP (IEnd= 12292175 MxCore= 6291456) Use %Mem=12MW to provide the minimum amount of memory required to complete this step. Error termination via Lnk1e at Thu Feb 2 13:05:32 2006. | Default memory (6 MW, set in $GAUSS_MEMDEF) is too small for unfchk. |
| galloc: could not allocate memory.: Resource temporarily unavailable | Not enough memory. |
| Out-of-memory error in routine... | Not enough memory. |
| End of file in GetChg. Error termination via Lnk1e ... | Not enough memory. |
| IMax=3 JMax=2 DiffMx= 0.00D+00 Unable to allocate space to process matrices in G2DrvN: NAtomX= 58 NBasis= 762 NBas6D= 762 MDV1= 6291106 MinMem= 105955841. | Gaussian has 6 MW free memory (MDV1) but requires at least 106 MW (MinMem). |
| Estimate disk for full transformation -677255533 words. Semi-Direct transformation. Bad length for file. | MaxDisk has been set too low. |
| Error termination in NtrErr: NtrErr Called from FileIO. | The calculation has exceeded the maximum limit of maxcyc. |
| Erroneous read. Read 0 instead of 6258688. fd = 4 g_read | Disk quota or disk size exceeded. Could also be disk failure or NFS timeout. |
| Erroneous write. Write 8192 instead of 12288. fd = 4 orig len = 12288 left = 12288 g_write | Disk quota or disk size exceeded. Could also be disk failure or NFS timeout. |
| PGFIO/stdio: Permission denied PGFIO-F-/OPEN/unit=11/error code returned by host stdio - 13. File name = /gaussian/Gau-#####.inp In source file ml0.f, at line number 177 | The user does not have write permission for $GAUSS_SCRDIR. |
