Why is the server down? READ THIS FIRST

**yottabyte** · 04-24-2011, 17:40,

This is a thread where I will be keeping you updated on server restarts, crashes, downtimes etc.

Go here first if you can't connect to the server. Minecraft is still in beta and this is what to expect from a beta game.

**yottabyte** · (This post was last modified: 04-24-2011, 17:45 by yottabyte.)

Server crash today around 17:20 CEST

Caused by a failing player file, makes the server stop accepting connections.
What makes it even worse is that the console failed some time ago and is no longer accepting commands.
Now running a force close to the server, seems like it's going well although it's really slow.

Update: Server disabled 5 plugins or so before it decided to completely die. Had to force close java. Might cause a small rollback :/

**yottabyte** · 04-25-2011, 19:06,

Really bad lag started 19:01, about 4 minutes ago. Running a safe restart right now.

Seems like the server spiked and jumped over to SWAP, then adjusted itself after a couple of minutes.

**yottabyte** · 04-29-2011, 01:40,

Server started rejecting all connections around 00:22 after this error

Code:
2011-04-29 00:22:50 [SEVERE] java.lang.NullPointerException

2011-04-29 00:22:50 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.EntityPainting.damageEntity(EntityPainting.java:209)

2011-04-29 00:22:50 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.Entity.a(Entity.java:652)

2011-04-29 00:22:50 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.Entity.a(Entity.java:1180)

2011-04-29 00:22:50 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.EntityWeatherStorm.p_(EntityWeatherStorm.java:112)

2011-04-29 00:22:50 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.World.cleanUp(World.java:928)

2011-04-29 00:22:50 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.h(MinecraftServer.java:367)

2011-04-29 00:22:50 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:285)

2011-04-29 00:22:50 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:394)

2011-04-29 00:22:50 [SEVERE] Unexpected exception

java.lang.NullPointerException

    at net.minecraft.server.EntityPainting.damageEntity(EntityPainting.java:209)

    at net.minecraft.server.Entity.a(Entity.java:652)

    at net.minecraft.server.Entity.a(Entity.java:1180)

    at net.minecraft.server.EntityWeatherStorm.p_(EntityWeatherStorm.java:112)

    at net.minecraft.server.World.cleanUp(World.java:928)

    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.h(MinecraftServer.java:367)

    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:285)

    at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:394)

Seems like it has something to do with weather and paintings. Will look into it tomorrow. The server restarted and up going again.

**yottabyte** · 04-29-2011, 23:11,

Same thing as last post. Really gotta look into this now. Server started rejecting connections 2 minutes ago, noticed it in less than a minute and restarted it safely.

**yottabyte** · 04-30-2011, 11:53,

Once again, same error as the previous crashes. I looked it up and the cause was a lightning striking a painting. This was fixed in the latest RB of Bukkit, in the process of updating the server right now!

**yottabyte** · 05-01-2011, 01:35,

Another one of those weird RAM spikes causing the server to freeze for a while. Safe restart completed and server is up again.

**yottabyte** · 05-09-2011, 16:59,

The server is having a pretty severe lag spike right now. No idea what could be causing it. Running a restart but it might take a while :/

**yottabyte** · 05-09-2011, 17:05,

The server has been restarted

**yottabyte** · 05-11-2011, 17:37,

Was building up some serious lag issues, doing a restart now.