Thank you for your reply Delvish
I tried as you suggested and used the pkill freeorionca; pkill freeoriond; pkill freeorion commands
The i tried running
../cde-exec /usr/bin/freeorion.elf
and even
../cde-exec /usr/bin/freeorion.elf --force-external-server as Geoff suggested, both resulted in the following errors in the terminal
shadowwraith@Acer-Aspire-5552:~/games/freeorion-b/cde-root$ ../cde-exec /usr/bin/freeorion.elf --force-external-server
[ Process PID=5731 runs in 32 bit mode. ]
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:1616:(snd1_pcm_direct_parse_open_conf) The field ipc_gid must be a valid group (create group audio)
AL lib: (EE) alsa_open_playback: Could not open playback device 'default': Invalid argument
shadowwraith@Acer-Aspire-5552:~/games/freeorion-b/cde-root$ ../cde-exec /usr/bin/freeorion.elf
[ Process PID=5802 runs in 32 bit mode. ]
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:1616:(snd1_pcm_direct_parse_open_conf) The field ipc_gid must be a valid group (create group audio)
AL lib: (EE) alsa_open_playback: Could not open playback device 'default': Invalid argument
execv failed: Bad address
i also tried with the sound disabled, but to no avail
This line
execv failed: Bad address
seems to appear when i click on the single player button from the main menu.
In regards to the ClientNetworking::SetPlayerID: player id set to: -1, the game never gets beyond the galaxy setup stage. as soon as i click on start, there is ~10 sec freeze then the timeout message appears.
The line Unable to initialise OpenAL device:, openal is installed on my system by default, plus another game that i have (minetest) uses openAL, unless there is a clash with pulseaudio which is the default audio server used on Ubuntu (or Ubuntu studio in my case)
I have attached the freeorion.log, hope it helps.
P.S - sorry i tend to ramble a bit XD