rdinp is the input routine for feff -- the error message means that for some reason feff6 could not open the input file (e.g. feff is running correctly and cannot find the input file).  Now in the echo area, artemis claims the feff.inp file is being created.  feff will attempt to open an "feff.inp" file from the directory in which it is invoked (e.g. something like:

 ls -l ~/.horae/stash/artemis.project.1/data0.feff3:
total 776
drwxr-xr-x   41 paulfons  paulfons   1394 Sep  5 19:07 ./
drwxr-xr-x   13 paulfons  paulfons    442 Sep  5 19:07 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 paulfons  paulfons    701 Sep  5 19:07 atoms.inp
-rw-r--r--    1 paulfons  paulfons   6388 Sep  5 19:07 feff.inp
-rw-r--r--    1 paulfons  paulfons   7228 Sep  5 19:07 feff.run
-rw-r--r--    1 paulfons  paulfons   4666 Sep  5 19:07 feff0001.dat
-rw-r--r--    1 paulfons  paulfons   4666 Sep  5 19:07 feff0002.dat

You must be in this directory for feff to work (e.g. from the terminal).  You might try this and see what happens.  Otherwise, the error message for feff is correct -- there probably was no feff.inp in the directory you ran it from.  I am still not clear on the cause though.

Paul


On Sep 9, 2006, at 11:37 PM, Stefano Ciurli wrote:

Hello Matt and Paul,

I verified the following:

1) here is the error message in the echo window

Preparing to run FEFF ...
Performing autosave ...
Saving feff.inp file
Performing autosave ... done!
Running feff (this could take a few minutes, please be patient) ...
Uh oh!  That Feff calculation did not run successfully.

2) when I run the command "feff6" from the terminal, I get the following message:

stefano% feff6
 Feff 6L.02
 Fatal Error: cannot open file "feff.inp" in module rdinp

I interpret this message with the conclusion that I can just type 'feff6' in the Artemis preferences, as the command is actually seen and of course it is missing the feff.inp file if I run the command from the terminal.

In the end, I have not been able to pinpoint the problem. Maybe a fault in the installer??? I am stuck.

Stefano
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