FreeOrion

Posted: **Thu Sep 20, 2018 6:46 pm**

Hi friends,
in Short: I can not start the game. Errormessage "Can not start server. A server is already running" - via Continue, New, Quickstart or Load

In Long:
what: The Logfile shows the game starts a server at 127.0.0.1 and then imidiately tries to start another one,
where: Fresh install of 0.4.8 (Buid 2018-08-23) on WIndows 10 64bit

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21:58:36.974695 [debug] log : LoggerWithOptionsDB.cpp:105 : Configure log source "network" from optionsDB using threshold debug
21:58:36.974695 [debug] network : ClientNetworking.cpp:335 : Attempt to connect to server at one of these addresses:
21:58:36.974695 [debug] network : ClientNetworking.cpp:337 :   tcp::resolver::iterator host_name: 127.0.0.1  address: 127.0.0.1  port: 12346
21:58:36.976679 [debug] network : ClientNetworking.cpp:356 : Connected to server at host_name: 127.0.0.1  address: 127.0.0.1  port: 12346
21:58:36.976679 [debug] network : ClientNetworking.cpp:380 : Connecting to server took 1 ms.
21:58:36.976679 [debug] network : ClientNetworking.cpp:383 : ConnectToServer() : starting networking thread
21:58:36.976679 [error] client : HumanClientApp.cpp:444 : Can't start local server because a server is already connecting at 127.0.0.0.
21:58:40.136774 [debug] client : HumanClientApp.cpp:721 : HumanClientApp::LoadSinglePlayerGame
21:58:40.136774 [debug] client : HumanClientApp.cpp:756 : HumanClientApp::LoadSinglePlayerGame() not already in a game, so don't need to end it
21:58:40.136774 [debug] network : ClientNetworking.cpp:335 : Attempt to connect to server at one of these addresses:
21:58:40.136774 [debug] network : ClientNetworking.cpp:337 :   tcp::resolver::iterator host_name: 127.0.0.1  address: 127.0.0.1  port: 12346
21:58:40.136774 [error] client : HumanClientApp.cpp:444 : Can't start local server because a server is already connecting at 127.0.0.0.
21:59:13.755794 [debug] client : HumanClientApp.cpp:721 : HumanClientApp::LoadSinglePlayerGame

Update 09/21st:
* I installed over a (deinstalled and hanging) old installation witouth manually removing the AppData/Roaming/Freeorion files first - maybe that was an issue
* I uninstallied 0.48 and manually deleted and reinstalled 0.4.8 -> Now I get the error "no server found" instead.

SOLUTION:
* after cleaning the "roaming" files on all users in the system and restarting, it worked

Any Ideas ?

Josch

Posted: **Fri Sep 21, 2018 12:05 am**

You've got an orphaned server process. Open up the task manager, showing all processes not just applications, and kill any instances of freeorion, freeoriond, and freeorionca (on Windows you'll have some caps in there).

Posted: **Fri Sep 21, 2018 11:26 am**

Dilvish wrote: ↑Fri Sep 21, 2018 12:05 am You've got an orphaned server process.

Hi Dilvish - been there, done that, got no universe

This behaviour happens right after installation.

I did some more testing and updated the original post

Posted: **Fri Sep 21, 2018 11:49 am**

Hm, sounds like some other process already uses port 12346. Try launching FO from the command line and specify the "--network.message.port" command line option, followed by a different port number. E.g.:

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> FreeOrion.exe --network.message.port 12390

That will cause FO to use the specified port number for network communications between server and client(s).

Aside from that, please provide the entire logfiles ("freeorion.log" and "freeoriond.log" if it gets created at all) after a failed attempt at starting a game (zip them up and attach them to a reply here).

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