On a different machine, one that had a vm with ubuntu 14.04 server but wounldn't download work, I setup another vm with mint 17.3, installed boinc 7.2.42, ran the boincmgr, attached enigma and it got work. What the heck doesn't enigma like about ubuntu server? If it was just one system that couldn't get work I would assume it was specific issue with just that system but it doesn't like any of my ubuntu systems.