Hi,  
 
I am testing to get relation between bond length(Rcn) and potential energy(Vcn)  of ACN by changing C-N bond length. The equilibrium bond length is 1.16981 A and I reduce it by 0.02 angstrom per step with geometry adjust as shown below.  
Rcn          Energy                             Energy diff(Hartree) 
1.14981	-132.410048135618	0.000893164381978 
1.16981	-132.4109413	                0 
 
But when i change bond length to 1.12981 A(3.4% decrease from equilibrium) and 1.10981 (5.1% decrease from equilibrium) and encountered error when running nwchem with following input. What might be the reasons and solutions for these errors? Thanks 
 
 
Input for Rcn= 1.12981  
 
Title "CN_SCAN"                
 
Start  CN_SCAN 
 
echo 
 
charge 0 
 
geometry noautosym units angstrom 
N      0.00000000     0.00000000     1.45215878 
C      0.00000000    -0.00000000     0.28234682 
C      0.00000000    -0.00000000    -1.19525538 
H      0.73202481     0.73202481    -1.56652446 
H      0.26793968    -0.99996449    -1.56652446 
H     -0.99996449     0.26793968    -1.56652446 
 
end 
 
geometry adjust  
   zcoord 
     bond 1 2 cccc 1.129810 constant 
   end 
 
end 
 
ecce_print ecce.out 
 
  
 
basis spherical noprint  
  * library aug-cc-pVDZ  
 
end  
  
 
scf  
  thresh 1.0e-10  
  tol2e 1.0e-10  
  singlet  
  rhf 
  maxiter 100 
 
end  
 
ccsd 
 thresh 1e-07 
 maxiter 999 
 freeze core 0 
 
end 
 
driver 
 tight 
 maxiter 100 
 
end 
 
task ccsd energy 
 
Output Section:  
 
                              Z-matrix (autoz) 
                               --------  
 
 
Units are Angstrom for bonds and degrees for angles 
 
 
     Type          Name      I     J     K     L     M      Value 
     ----------- --------  ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---------- 
   1 Stretch                  1     2                       1.16981 
   2 Stretch                  2     3                       1.47760 
   3 Stretch                  3     4                       1.09980 
   4 Stretch                  3     5                       1.09980 
   5 Stretch                  3     6                       1.09980 
   6 Bend                     1     3     4               109.72941 
   7 Bend                     1     3     5               109.72941 
   8 Bend                     1     3     6               109.72941 
   9 Bend                     2     3     4               109.72941 
  10 Bend                     2     3     5               109.72941 
  11 Bend                     2     3     6               109.72941 
  12 Bend                     4     3     5               109.21180 
  13 Bend                     4     3     6               109.21180 
  14 Bend                     5     3     6               109.21180 
  15 Torsion                  1     2     4     3        -180.00000 
  16 Torsion                  1     2     5     3         180.00000 
  17 Torsion                  1     2     6     3        -180.00000 
 
 
 
 Constants are marked with an asterisk (*). 
 
 
     Type          Name      I     J     K     L     M      Value 
     ----------- --------  ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---------- 
   1*Stretch      cccc        1     2                       1.12981 
   2 Stretch                  2     3                       1.47760 
   3 Stretch                  3     4                       1.09980 
   4 Stretch                  3     5                       1.09980 
   5 Stretch                  3     6                       1.09980 
   6 Bend                     1     3     4               109.72941 
   7 Bend                     1     3     5               109.72941 
   8 Bend                     1     3     6               109.72941 
   9 Bend                     2     3     4               109.72941 
  10 Bend                     2     3     5               109.72941 
  11 Bend                     2     3     6               109.72941 
  12 Bend                     4     3     5               109.21180 
  13 Bend                     4     3     6               109.21180 
  14 Bend                     5     3     6               109.21180 
  15 Torsion                  1     2     4     3         180.00000 
  16 Torsion                  1     2     5     3         180.00000 
  17 Torsion                  1     2     6     3        -180.00000 
 
 
      Multipole analysis of the density wrt the origin 
      ------------------------------------------------ 
 
 
 
    L   x y z        total         open         nuclear 
    -   - - -        -----         ----         ------- 
    0   0 0 0     -0.000000      0.000000     22.000000 
 
 
    1   1 0 0      0.000000      0.000000      0.000000 
    1   0 1 0      0.000000      0.000000      0.000000 
    1   0 0 1     -1.659949      0.000000     -0.251976 
 
 
    2   2 0 0    -13.219779      0.000000      5.740775 
    2   1 1 0     -0.000000      0.000000     -0.000000 
    2   1 0 1     -0.000000      0.000000      0.000000 
    2   0 2 0    -13.219779      0.000000      5.740775 
    2   0 1 1     -0.000000      0.000000      0.000000 
    2   0 0 2    -15.718319      0.000000    108.447403 
 
 
 
Parallel integral file used     208 records with       0 large values 
 
 
 
 
                  Four-Index Transformation 
                  ------------------------- 
         Number of basis functions:             96 
         Number of shells:                      42 
         Number of occupied orbitals:           11 
         Number of occ. correlated orbitals:    11 
         Block length:                          16 
         Superscript MO index range:      1 -   11 
         Subscript MO index range:        1 -   96 
         MO coefficients read from:  ./CN_SCAN.movecs 
         Number of operator matrices in core:  132 
         Half-transformed integrals produced 
 
 
    Pass:    1     Index range:    1  -   11     Time:      2.81 
------------------------------------------ 
MP2 Energy (coupled cluster initial guess) 
------------------------------------------ 
Reference energy:           -131.943768376969416 
MP2 Corr. energy:             -0.441754295802068 
Total MP2 energy:           -132.385522672771486 
 
 
 
 
 
**************************************************************************** 
             the segmented parallel ccsd program:   16 nodes 
**************************************************************************** 
 
 
 
 
 
level of theory    ccsd 
number of core         0 
number of occupied    11 
number of virtual     85 
number of deleted      0 
total functions       96 
number of shells      42 
basis label          566 
 
 
 
 
  ***** ccsd parameters ***** 
  iprt   =     0 
  convi  = 0.100E-06 
  maxit  =   999 
  mxvec  =     5 
memory             26201787 
 Restarting from old vector in ./CN_SCAN.t2 
 
 
 
  
iter     correlation     delta       rms       T2     Non-T2      Main 
            energy      energy      error      ampl     ampl      Block 
                                               time     time      time 
 
  
  1     -0.4646524964 -4.647D-01  8.804D-02    26.16     0.00    25.31 
  2     -0.4615787896  3.074D-03  1.348D-02     5.33     0.00     4.53 
  3     -0.4633856973 -1.807D-03  5.469D-03     5.54     0.00     4.76 
  4     -0.4632846228  1.011D-04  3.195D-03     5.93     0.02     4.53 
  5     -0.4680386121 -4.754D-03  1.385D+00    10.08     0.00     9.16 
  6     -1.2258434762 -7.578D-01  1.646D+04     1.01     0.00     0.03 
  7  31027.1766174762  3.103D+04  4.786D+05     0.91     0.00     0.02 
  8******************  8.402D+08  1.640D+07     0.90     0.00     0.02 
  9******************  2.334D+13  4.079D+10     0.81     0.00     0.02 
 
 
Compare input showing that only bond length changes, 
 
[nshen@login2 13]$ diff *.nw ../14/*.nw 
21c21 
<       bond 1 2 cccc 1.109810 constant 
--- 
>       bond 1 2 cccc 1.129810 constant 
 
 
Output Section with another bond length 
 
 Constants are marked with an asterisk (*). 
 
 
     Type          Name      I     J     K     L     M      Value 
     ----------- --------  ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---------- 
   1*Stretch      cccc        1     2                       1.10981 
 
 
... 
 
      Multipole analysis of the density wrt the origin 
      ------------------------------------------------ 
 
 
    L   x y z        total         open         nuclear 
    -   - - -        -----         ----         ------- 
    0   0 0 0     -0.000000      0.000000     22.000000 
 
 
    1   1 0 0      0.000000      0.000000      0.000000 
    1   0 1 0      0.000000      0.000000     -0.000000 
    1   0 0 1     -1.641985      0.000000     -0.377958 
 
 
    2   2 0 0    -13.155013      0.000000      5.740775 
    2   1 1 0     -0.000000      0.000000     -0.000000 
    2   1 0 1     -0.000000      0.000000      0.000000 
    2   0 2 0    -13.155013      0.000000      5.740775 
    2   0 1 1     -0.000000      0.000000     -0.000000 
    2   0 0 2    -15.697384      0.000000    107.032547 
 
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
multipole: rtdb?        0 
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
An error occured in the Runtime Database 
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
For more information see the NWChem manual at http://www.nwchem-sw.org/index.php/NWChem_Documentation 
 
 
 
For further details see manual section:                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                               
          
multipole: rtdb?        0 
                                                                                     
I am not sure what causes the error in the runtime database
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