Thank you so much for your helps! Looks like the Psi4 v1.5 must be installed through the method discussed in Conda Install for 1.5
Here is what I did. I tried to install the Psi4 1.4 and 1.5 binaries through conda by the following commands:
conda create -n psi4_1.5 psi4=1.5 -c psi4
or
conda create -n psi4_1.4 psi4=1.4 -c psi4
Both installation gives the following errors for almost every input files that I tried, including the official sample test fiels:
forrtl: severe (174): SIGSEGV, segmentation fault occurred
Image PC Routine Line Source
libgdma.so 00007F9EBC3310DC for__signal_handl Unknown Unknown
libpthread-2.31.s 00007F9EC3287420 Unknown Unknown Unknown
core.cpython-39-x 00007F9EBFBFA459 Unknown Unknown Unknown
core.cpython-39-x 00007F9EBF3724AF Unknown Unknown Unknown
core.cpython-39-x 00007F9EBF2E9900 Unknown Unknown Unknown
core.cpython-39-x 00007F9EBF2E0D63 _ZN3psi12TwoBodyA Unknown Unknown
...
Then I found the post in forum on Conda Install for 1.5, and installed the Psi4 v1.5 through:
conda create -n psi4_1.5 psi4=1.5 python=3.9 libint2=*=hc9558a2_9 pytest=5 pcmsolver=*=py39h6d17ec8_2 -c psi4
And this version resolves the lmax_exceeded problem for me. I hope this is helpful to others who need to optimize the Zinc systems.
I am looking forward to the fix for Psi4 v1.7. Thank you again for your help @loriab !