not able to download work data

[shirish]

 ./boinc --attach_project http://issac.ssl.berkeley.edu/dev <key here>
2007-06-18 00:05:25 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.10.7 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
2007-06-18 00:05:25 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
2007-06-18 00:05:25 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.16.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8d zlib/1.2.3
2007-06-18 00:05:25 [---] Data directory: /home/shirish/boinc/BOINC
2007-06-18 00:05:25 [---] Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz [Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 2]
2007-06-18 00:05:25 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm up
2007-06-18 00:05:25 [---] Memory: 622.44 MB physical, 1.92 GB virtual
2007-06-18 00:05:25 [---] Disk: 62.33 GB total, 52.86 GB free
2007-06-18 00:05:26 [http://issac.ssl.berkeley.edu/dev/] URL: http://issac.ssl.berkeley.edu/dev/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-06-18 00:05:26 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2007-06-18 00:05:26 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 311.22MB
2007-06-18 00:05:26 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 560.20MB
2007-06-18 00:05:26 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
2007-06-18 00:05:26 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
2007-06-18 00:05:31 [http://issac.ssl.berkeley.edu/dev/] Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
2007-06-18 00:05:31 [http://issac.ssl.berkeley.edu/dev/] Reason: Couldn't parse scheduler list
2007-06-18 00:05:58 [---] Benchmark results:
2007-06-18 00:05:58 [---]    Number of CPUs: 1
2007-06-18 00:05:58 [---]    590 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2007-06-18 00:05:58 [---]    1632 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
2007-06-18 00:06:40 [http://issac.ssl.berkeley.edu/dev/] Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
2007-06-18 00:06:40 [http://issac.ssl.berkeley.edu/dev/] Reason: Couldn't parse scheduler list
2007-06-18 00:07:49 [http://issac.ssl.berkeley.edu/dev/] Deferring communication for 1 days 0 hr 0 min 0 sec
2007-06-18 00:07:49 [http://issac.ssl.berkeley.edu/dev/] Reason: 3 consecutive failures fetching scheduler list

Till here its fine as I had a bittorrent client also running so it was not able to compete for bandwidth but whats the story with deferring it to 1 day?

./boinc
2007-06-18 00:15:48 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.10.7 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
2007-06-18 00:15:48 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
2007-06-18 00:15:48 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.16.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8d zlib/1.2.3
2007-06-18 00:15:48 [---] Data directory: /home/shirish/boinc/BOINC
2007-06-18 00:15:48 [---] Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz [Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 2]
2007-06-18 00:15:48 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm up
2007-06-18 00:15:48 [---] Memory: 622.44 MB physical, 1.92 GB virtual
2007-06-18 00:15:48 [---] Disk: 62.33 GB total, 52.84 GB free
2007-06-18 00:15:48 [http://issac.ssl.berkeley.edu/dev/] URL: http://issac.ssl.berkeley.edu/dev/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-06-18 00:15:48 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2007-06-18 00:15:48 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 311.22MB
2007-06-18 00:15:48 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 560.20MB
2007-06-18 00:15:48 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB

It simply stays here.

[Ageless]

First off, which project are you trying to reach? Second off, check for typos in the URL before you think you have a bug.

If you are trying to attach to BOINC Alpha, use this URL: ​http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/alpha

​http://issac.ssl.berkeley.edu/dev/ is not of a project .. you made the typo in the URL.
​http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/dev/ is the link of the BOINC Development forums, they don't release work.