I've run SETI@Home on our home Solaris 10 Sun Fire 120 (SPARC) server for several years (BOINC 6.2.19 & setiathome-5.12.sparc-sun-solaris) with no trouble -- it just worked. I noticed recently (while looking at replacing the server with an Intel-based Solaris 11 system) that the clients stopped getting work units back in June 2013. I don't expect to keep the Sun Fire 120 running much long, so would like to have a look at SETI@Home on the new(er) Solaris 11 system.

I managed to compile (working?) BOINC 7.2.33 and SETI@Home 7.19 64-bit clients from source using GCC-4.5.2.

The BOINC client appears to start & run OK (boinc_client --daemon) but complains that my app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of SETI@Home v7.

The seti_boinc client source doesn't suggest an app_info.xml file for the software (that I can find), so I created by own from various sources, to wit:

<app_info>
   <app>
   <name>setiathome_enhanced</name>
   </app>
   <file_info>
      <name>setiathome-7.19.x86_64-pc-solaris</name>
      <executable/>
   </file_info>
   <app_version>
      <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
      <version_num>719</version_num>
      <api_version>7.2.33</api_version>
      <file_ref>
         <file_name>setiathome-7.19.x86_64-pc-solaris</file_name>
         <main_program/>
      </file_ref>
   </app_version>
</app_info>

I assume the error message I see regarding my app_info.xml file doesn't originate from the client (based on my reading of the boinc source code); rather, it comes from the server-side.

So my questions are: (1) Are anonymous Solaris i386 or x86_64 platforms supported by the SETI@Home project ?
(2) If so, what's wrong with my app_info.xml file (and how to debug these kinds of errors)?

Regards --Gary

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The BOINC client appears to start & run OK (boinc_client --daemon) but complains that my app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of SETI@Home v7.

And rightly so ;-) as your app_info.xml only references setiathome_enhanced, but it should contain references to setiathome_v7.

Excerpts from my client_state.xml:
<name>setiathome_v7</name>
<app_name>setiathome_v7</app_name>

Gruß
Gundolf

Yes, that was it -- I now have v7 clients running again. Thanks for setting me off in the right direction.

Cheers --Gary

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