In case you get something along the lines of
$ formchk input.chk output.fchk Read checkpoint file input.chk Write formatted file output.fchk Missing data for FChkPn. Error termination via Lnk1e at <DATE> Segmentation fault
this means that your checkpoint file (*.chk) is damaged. Please make sure, that …
- … you have enough space available to actually store the whole checkpoint file
- … Gaussian09 did not crash during the simulation that produced the checkpoint file
- … the geometry optimization converged (if this is applicable)
- … you use the same Gaussian09 binaries that have been used for checkpoint file creation, as the normal checkpoint file format is both version and architecture dependent.
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Hi, I’m using Gaussian 9, during the processing, i get this message error (Missing data for FChkPn.
Error termination via Lnk1e at Sat Dec 29 13:36:27 2018.
Formchk Job Completed (PID = 1cd0, status = 2057)). Please can you help me to solve it