diff --git a/PRIVATE b/PRIVATE
index bea0b1c2e..ad4a685d4 160000
--- a/PRIVATE
+++ b/PRIVATE
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit bea0b1c2e3ead08d0d2f1e5b4561bfe6251052a4
+Subproject commit ad4a685d454271a400914c0334c017e3ac0dfc99
diff --git a/src/config.f90 b/src/config.f90
index ecde0831c..0dfb8c878 100644
--- a/src/config.f90
+++ b/src/config.f90
@@ -83,9 +83,11 @@ subroutine parse_numerics()
     if (worldrank == 0) then
       print*, 'reading numerics.yaml'; flush(IO_STDOUT)
       fileContent = IO_read('numerics.yaml')
-      call results_openJobFile(parallel=.false.)
-      call results_writeDataset_str(fileContent,'setup','numerics.yaml','numerics configuration')
-      call results_closeJobFile
+      if (len(fileContent) > 0) then
+        call results_openJobFile(parallel=.false.)
+        call results_writeDataset_str(fileContent,'setup','numerics.yaml','numerics configuration')
+        call results_closeJobFile
+      endif
     endif
     call parallelization_bcast_str(fileContent)
 
@@ -113,9 +115,11 @@ subroutine parse_debug()
     if (worldrank == 0) then
       print*, 'reading debug.yaml'; flush(IO_STDOUT)
       fileContent = IO_read('debug.yaml')
-      call results_openJobFile(parallel=.false.)
-      call results_writeDataset_str(fileContent,'setup','debug.yaml','debug configuration')
-      call results_closeJobFile
+      if (len(fileContent) > 0) then
+        call results_openJobFile(parallel=.false.)
+        call results_writeDataset_str(fileContent,'setup','debug.yaml','debug configuration')
+        call results_closeJobFile
+      endif
     endif
     call parallelization_bcast_str(fileContent)