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["Chun Li " <chun.li@mf.mpg.de>]

Dear all,

I am performing rf calculations on wurtzite structure. When I try to
change the density of k-points in only one direction by modify ngkpt
(for example, from 6 2 2 to 8 2 2), the following ERROR appears in the
log file shortly after the third dataset (phonon, electric field and
strain perturbations) starts.

...
symkchk : found identity, with number  1
 symkchk : ERROR -
   k-point set must have full space-group symmetry
   there is no match for kpt   2 transformed by symmetry   2
   Action : change kptopt to 2 or 3 and/or change or use shiftk
            shiftk = 0 0 0 is always a safe choice.
-P-0000
-P-0000  leave_new : decision taken to exit ...

I have set kptopt3=2 and shiftk= 0 0 0.5 in the original input files.
However, when I try to use kptopt3=3 or set shiftk=0 0 0, the same error
still exists. Does that mean that only certain ngkpt can be used in the
calculations? I am confused about that. Hope someone can give me
suggestions. Thanks in advance.

Best regards.

Chun Li