dredhorse/DwarfForge — Issue #12: Fatal Server Load Error
Author: khamseen
Created: 2012-03-01 15:29:00+00:00
State: open

Using V2.5 and Bukkit's new RB (#1988) the server doesn't load at all, it crashes at the first attempt to load plugins with the following error.

[SEVERE] java.lang.NullPointerException
2012-03-01 15:27:23 [SEVERE]	at org.bukkit.plugin.PluginDescriptionFile.loadMap(PluginDescriptionFile.java:203)
2012-03-01 15:27:23 [SEVERE]	at org.bukkit.plugin.PluginDescriptionFile.(PluginDescriptionFile.java:40)
2012-03-01 15:27:23 [SEVERE]	at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.getPluginDescription(JavaPluginLoader.java:198)
2012-03-01 15:27:23 [SEVERE]	at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugins(SimplePluginManager.java:132)
2012-03-01 15:27:23 [SEVERE]	at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.loadPlugins(CraftServer.java:206)
2012-03-01 15:27:23 [SEVERE]	at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.(CraftServer.java:182)
2012-03-01 15:27:23 [SEVERE]	at net.minecraft.server.ServerConfigurationManager.(ServerConfigurationManager.java:53)
2012-03-01 15:27:23 [SEVERE]	at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.init(MinecraftServer.java:147)
2012-03-01 15:27:23 [SEVERE]	at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:407)
2012-03-01 15:27:23 [SEVERE]	at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:465)
2012-03-01 15:27:23 [SEVERE] Unexpected exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.bukkit.plugin.PluginDescriptionFile.loadMap(PluginDescriptionFile.java:203)
at org.bukkit.plugin.PluginDescriptionFile.(PluginDescriptionFile.java:40)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.getPluginDescription(JavaPluginLoader.java:198)
at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugins(SimplePluginManager.java:132)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.loadPlugins(CraftServer.java:206)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.(CraftServer.java:182)
at net.minecraft.server.ServerConfigurationManager.(ServerConfigurationManager.java:53)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.init(MinecraftServer.java:147)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:407)
at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:465)

Removing this plugin allows the server to load other plugins normally.