yesterday i was playing with my friends, i removed a plugin while we were in the server, idk if that might affect the server, then i do "/reload confirm" so the plugin will be gone, then it worked, everything was ok and working fine, after now, for some reason my server keeps crashing now, and idk what to do, we made so many progress how do i get this back to work please help me
this is what the log said,
System Info: Java 11 (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 11.0.7+10) Host: Linux 4.4.0-174-generic (amd64)
Loading libraries, please wait...
[22:10:30 INFO]: Environment: authHost='https://authserver.mojang.com', accountsHost='https://api.mojang.com', sessionHost='https://sessionserver.mojang.com', servicesHost='https://api.minecraftservices.com', name='PROD'
[22:10:32 INFO]: Reloading ResourceManager: Default, bukkit
[22:10:36 INFO]: Loaded 7 recipes
[22:10:46 INFO]: Starting minecraft server version 1.16.4
[22:10:46 INFO]: Loading properties
[22:10:47 INFO]: This server is running Paper version git-Paper-332 (MC: 1.16.4) (Implementing API version 1.16.4-R0.1-SNAPSHOT)
=>.... [22:10:47 ERROR]: Encountered an unexpected exception
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.JsonList.load(JsonList.java:192) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-332]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.DedicatedPlayerList.y(SourceFile:95) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-332]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.DedicatedPlayerList.<init>(SourceFile:22) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-332]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.DedicatedServer.init(DedicatedServer.java:158) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-332]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.MinecraftServer.w(MinecraftServer.java:936) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-332]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.MinecraftServer.lambda$a$0(MinecraftServer.java:178) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-332]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834) [?:?]
[22:10:48 ERROR]: This crash report has been saved to: /server/./crash-reports/crash-2020-12-17_22.10.48-server.txt
[22:10:48 INFO]: Stopping server
[22:10:48 INFO]: Saving worlds
[22:10:48 INFO]: Flushing Chunk IO
>....[22:10:48 INFO]: Closing Thread Pool
[22:10:48 INFO]: Closing Server