I'm running a new Ubuntu server and am having problems getting Boinc to do anything.

> tail stdoutdae.txt

2-Dec-2016 00:29:45 [SETI@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
12-Dec-2016 00:29:45 [SETI@home] Requesting new tasks for CPU
12-Dec-2016 00:29:48 [SETI@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12-Dec-2016 00:29:48 [SETI@home] Unknown app name setiathome_v7 in app_info.xml
12-Dec-2016 00:29:48 [SETI@home] No tasks sent
12-Dec-2016 00:29:48 [SETI@home] Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of SETI@home v8.

> more /var/lib/boinc-client/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/app_info.xml

<app_info>
    <app>
        <name>setiathome_v7</name>
    </app>
    <file_info>
        <name>setiathome_v7</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_v7</app_name>
        <version_num>719</version_num>
        <file_ref>
           <file_name>setiathome_v7</file_name>
           <main_program/>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
</app_info>

Any tips on where to find answers? Thanks!

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We finished v7 ages ago. We're on v8 now. Stop your BOINC client, delete the app_info and restart BOINC. It should get the stock app.

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BOINC blog

Not on its own... it's exit BOINC client, delete the app_info.xml file from var/lib/boinc-client/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/, restart BOINC and reset the Seti@Home project. If you don't reset, all the entries in the client_state.xml file will still point to the non-existing applications it stored from the app_info.xml file.

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Thank you for the help. I'm back in business.

It's good to be running all cores at 100% again, it's winter over here and we can use the warmth.

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If you finished v7 "ages" ago, then shouldn't we see something about v8 in the download page or the version history? But thanks for the fix regarding the xml file. I was able to get it started again on my Linux Mint install.

Don't confuse BOINC v7 with SETI@home v8. v7 is still the current version of BOINC and v8 is the current version of SETI as of this writing.

Ah, yes, it does appear I got those two mixed up. Probably because when you start from the seti@home page and click through to the download, it takes you to the BOINC page for download. I still remember the early days when seti@home was a stand alone app.