Greetings Francois!
Here is what I got using ANTECHAMBER to get the resp charges.
I used as you suggested, a higher level of theory(B3YLP and so on.)
obtaining a planar geometry for oxalate...
CHARGE     -2.00 
Formula: C2 O4 
ATOM      1  C1  OXL   1     0.000   0.000   0.821  0.727276     c
ATOM      2  C2  OXL   1     0.000   0.000  -0.821  0.727276     c
ATOM      3  O1  OXL   1    -0.001   1.124   1.392 -0.863638     o
ATOM      4  O2  OXL   1    -0.001  -1.124  -1.392 -0.863638     o
ATOM      5  O3  OXL   1     0.001  -1.124   1.392 -0.863638     o
ATOM      6  O4  OXL   1     0.001   1.124  -1.392 -0.863638     o
BOND    1    1    2    0     C1   C2
BOND    2    1    3    0     C1   O1
BOND    3    1    5    0     C1   O3
BOND    4    2    4    0     C2   O2
BOND    5    2    6    0     C2   O4
The PC GAMESS version is broken :(, only got the one for chemoffice
...and the source code gave me a headache. 
Oh my!.
Here it is the output from GAMESS for the RESP charges:
 0.735501  0.732186 -0.867237 -0.866606 -0.867237 -0.866606
and here is the p2n input
REMARK
REMARK TITLE MOLECULE
REMARK CHARGE-VALUE -2
REMARK MULTIPLICITY-VALUE 1
REMARK
ATOM      1  C1  OXL   557       0.747   0.000   0.002                C1
ATOM      2  C2  OXL   557      -0.747   0.000   0.000                C2
ATOM      3  O3  OXL   557       1.385  -1.105   0.001                O1
ATOM      4  O4  OXL   557      -1.385  -1.105  -0.002                O2
ATOM      5  O5  OXL   557       1.385   1.105  -0.002                O3
ATOM      6  O6  OXL   557      -1.385   1.105   0.001                O4
CONECT    1    2    3    5 
CONECT    2    1    4    6 
CONECT    3    1 
CONECT    4    2 
CONECT    5    1 
CONECT    6    2 
END
I was wondering what is the mistake you said I had on the files . . .
Okay Francois, now I am a believer.
Happy Oxalates for everybody.
Eduardo
FyD wrote:
> Quoting Eduardo Mendez <pckboy.gmail.com>:
>
>>   Geometry optimization(s) is/are being computed for molecule 1 ...
>> [ FAILED ]
>>        See the file(s) "JOB1-gam_m1-1.log"
>>
>> Any idea why the "Geometry optimization" is not working?.
>
> I tested your GAMESS output file & it looks OK for me. However, there 
> is something that looks strange to me at the beginning of your QM output:
>
> cp OXL.inp .//OXL.F05
> unset echo
> setenv ERICFMT .//ericfmt.dat
> setenv MCPPATH .//mcpdata
> [..]
>
> My understanding is that OXL.F05 should be in your scratch directory. 
> So if you copy OXL.inp into .//OXL.F05. Does it mean that your 
> 'working' directory is your 'scratch' directory ?
>
> Here is what I get when I run GAMESS on my machine:
> [fyd.localhost ~/GAMESS]$ rungms test > test.log
> cp test.inp /usr/local/0QM_SCR/test.F05
> unset echo
> setenv ERICFMT /usr/local/gamess/ericfmt.dat
> setenv EXTBAS /dev/null
> setenv IRCDATA /usr/local/0QM_SCR/test.irc
> [..]
>
> I run GAMESS from the "/home/fyd/GAMESS" working directory & my 
> scratch directory is at "/usr/local/0QM_SCR/"
>
> Or does it mean that in the last GAMESS version the "rungms" script 
> has changed ?
> I tried to get the last version of GAMESS without success since the 
> GAMESS MySQL/PHP download system seems broken. Did you modify the 
> "rungms" script, can you send me your "rungms" script ?
>
> BTW, you might consider using PC-GAMESS (if your machine is a PC) 
> since it looks really faster than GAMESS-US.
>
>> Attached is my output and p2n file.
>
> Your P2N file is not correct. Please, see the one I sent you. Your 1st 
> column of atom name is not correct: The four oxygen atoms should be 
> chemically equivalent. The two carbons should also be equivalent.
>
> Please read also the tutorial .
> http://q4md-forcefieldtools.org/Tutorial/Tutorial-1.php#2
> Read in particular the sections:
> - General information about charge fitting
> - Rules followed by the R.E.D. program for automatic RESP input 
> generation
> - Limitations of the R.E.D. versions I and II and creation of the P2N 
> file format
> And, see an example of P2N file .
> http://q4md-forcefieldtools.org/Tutorial/Tutorial-1.php#ATOM-NAME2
>
> regards, Francois
>
>
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