Yes it does, If the gradient is zero. There are a few likely causes of this behavior:
Simply resubmitting the job will continue the optimization. If you believe it will continue to take a lot of cycles, you can increase the maximum number of cycles with the GEOMETRYCYCLES= keyword. Running out of cycles usually implies that you had a bad starting guess, or that some unexpected chemistry is occurring (such as bond breaking). Review the Geometry optimization section for a more thorough discussion on what can go wrong and how to fix it.
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