I made a patch for fixing this bug, basically I added "/var/lib/boinc- client" to common-defs.h file.
So now when you fopen the path should make boinc point to the right file, could you (when the build will be successful) try this version? boinc - 7.0.47+dfsg-0~1007 in my ppa https://code.launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/boinc this version should fix this long stading bug -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/347651 Title: boincmgr and boinccmd fail to authenticate - looking in wrong place To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boinc/+bug/347651/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs