Server suddenly stopped working.

Yesterday I noticed my newly downloaded CraftBukkit had started turning up an error when it was started, but it seemed to run fine. Today I tried to log in and the everything has gone to hell. Huge holes in the map, chunks not being generated, big lag, that kind of thing. I rebooted my vps (centos 64bit) and tried again but it was still the same so I generated a new world and logged into that. Only there wasn't a world for me to log into, just blue sky and plummeting. After about a minute or so I was disconnected and told 'recv failed'.

I'm at a loss as to what's happened. Any insights?

If it's any help, here's a grab of my console.

Thanks guys.
--- merged: Mar 4, 2011 11:26 AM ---
Well I've got my world back... using build 493 seems to have worked. Still getting the IO exception on startup though.

 

What version of Java are you using?

 

Hi TnT... According to my VPS I'm using

Java version "1.6.0_17"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.7.5) (rhel-1.16.b17.e15-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)

 

What's confusing me is that error is happening before the CraftBukkit server starts up - and saying "cannot run program 'sh'" then continuing onto your regular CraftBukkit startup.

It looks like the error is occurring before CraftBukkit comes into play which makes me think its your Java. Can you try to either update it, or install Sun Java and give that a try?

 

I've started with a completely fresh install, with build 493 of craftbukkit. I've downloaded java with;

Code:

yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk

So I'm guessing that should be the current version? I've also tried;

Code:

yum update java

and it stays there's nothing new

I have to confess, aside from doing that, I wouldn't know how to install Sun Java on to my vps. I'm something of a n00b when it comes to *nix.

On a completely clean install, with build 493, I'm still getting the same error and the same .sh trying to run. The error doesn't show up in the server log either.

/EDIT - If I run minecraft_server.jar I don't get the error.

 

Can you give me the output of the "alias" command please? In your terminal, type: alias - post the output here.

 

Here you are, I've no idea what any of it means

Code:

alias l.='ls -d .* --color=tty'
alias ll='ls -l --color=tty'
alias ls='ls --color=tty'
alias vi='vim'
alias which='alias | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --show-dot --show-tilde'

 

I was looking to see if there was something aliased in your Java command, but there isn't.

I am going to guess at this point it is your Java version. My suggestion is to try Sun Java and see if that helps.

 

I'll give that a go... is it as simple as doing the following, or is there a bit more to it?

Code:

yum erase java
yum install sun java

 

Mine is like that but you cant join tho i need help because all my friends play on it... is it due to the portfoward?
please help me Mine suddenly stopped working one night when i opened it i really neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed help! I wish i could copy and paste ! it....