Server shutting down randomly and not letting people log in

Hey there all, having some severe issues with my hired Minecraft server. Basically it's now kicking people with timeout messages, and not even letting people log in. Though at some points it will let you log in, which is even weirder. What is also happening is the server will auto save once, then after about 10-20 mins, it will try to save again, but shutdown instead. I can't find anywhere to turn this feature off, if it is even a feature.

Server is on Windows Server 2008 and has 1024mb allocated to MC
Running latest CraftBukkit with Essentials and Permissions.

Bit of a snippet from console, hopefully it can give someone an idea on what's happening.

Code:

05.02 14:37:49 [Multicraft] Minecraft stopped
05.02 14:37:48 [Multicraft] Minecraft shut down
05.02 14:37:48 [Server] INFO Saving chunks
05.02 14:37:48 [Server] INFO Stopping server
05.02 14:37:48 [Server] INFO CONSOLE: Stopping the server..
05.02 14:37:47 [Server] INFO CONSOLE: Forcing save..
05.02 14:37:47 [Multicraft] Stopping Minecraft!
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] Startup Done! For help, type "help" or "?"
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO Loaded Essentials b136 by Zenexer, ementalo, Eris, and EggRoll
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] WARNING Warps were not found in warps folder
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	... 13 more
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at com.nijikokun.bukkit.Permissions.Permissions.(Permissions.java:74)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.(JavaPlugin.java:46)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.bukkit.util.config.Configuration.load(Configuration.java:62)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml.load(Yaml.java:264)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.yaml.snakeyaml.constructor.BaseConstructor.getSingleData(BaseConstructor.java:124)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.getSingleNode(Composer.java:105)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeDocument(Composer.java:122)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeNode(Composer.java:160)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeMappingNode(Composer.java:230)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeNode(Composer.java:160)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeMappingNode(Composer.java:228)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.yaml.snakeyaml.parser.ParserImpl.checkEvent(ParserImpl.java:148)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.yaml.snakeyaml.parser.ParserImpl.peekEvent(ParserImpl.java:163)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.yaml.snakeyaml.parser.ParserImpl$ParseBlockMappingKey.produce(ParserImpl.java:576)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO           ^
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO           Builder:
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO  in "", line 45, column 7:
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO expected , but found BlockMappingStart
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO         ^
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO         Default:
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO  in "", line 36, column 5:
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO Caused by: while parsing a block mapping
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	... 8 more
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.loadPlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:76)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:512)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:186)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.d(MinecraftServer.java:104)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.c(MinecraftServer.java:143)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.e(MinecraftServer.java:156)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.loadPlugins(CraftServer.java:42)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugins(SimplePluginManager.java:82)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:117)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 	at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.loadPlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:78)
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO org.bukkit.plugin.InvalidPluginException
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO SEVERE: Could not load plugins\Permissions.jar in plugins: null
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO 05/02/2011 2:35:23 PM org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager loadPlugins
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO Preparing spawn area: 93%
05.02 14:35:22 [Server] INFO Preparing spawn area: 53%
05.02 14:35:21 [Server] INFO Preparing spawn area: 16%
05.02 14:35:20 [Server] INFO Preparing start region
05.02 14:35:20 [Server] INFO Preparing level "world"

I'm just dumbstruck at the moment. Any help would be great!

 

You don't have the permissions plugin installed, do you?

 

No I do, which is the weird thing :S It's as if it isn't being put in. Maybe CraftBukkit is outdated...

 

im haveing a simmilar timeout and random shutdown problem and im useing the most recent craftbukkit #build 300

 

I think your permissions plugin hates your config file.

 

I'm having this exact same problem, although I'm not running permissions.
I remember seeing another thread on here regarding the same issue, and the OP found that their host was using Multicraft which doesn't like Craftbukkit.

 

Pretty much that. I've just cancelled my service and gotten myself a VPS to save me the hassle. They're very incompetent in responding to this issue.

 

it may look like you have a spacing problem?

Code:

2 14:35:23 [Server] INFO           ^
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO           Builder:
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO  in "", line 45, column 7:
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO expected , but found BlockMappingStart
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO         ^
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO         Default:
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO  in "", line 36, column 5:
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO Caused by: while parsing a block mapping
05.02 14:35:23 [Server] INFO     ... 8 more