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[19:48:40] [Server thread/INFO]: Starting minecraft server version 1.7.9
[19:48:40] [Server thread/INFO]: Loading properties
[19:48:40] [Server thread/INFO]: Default game type: SURVIVAL
[19:48:40] [Server thread/INFO]: Generating keypair
[19:48:40] [Server thread/INFO]: Starting Minecraft server on *:47559
[19:48:41] [Server thread/INFO]: This server is running CraftBukkit version git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-11-g3fd9db2-b3098jnks (MC: 1.7.9) (Implementing API version 1.7.9-R0.3-SNAPSHOT)
[19:48:41] [Thread-7/WARN]: Exception in thread "Thread-7" 
[19:48:41] [Thread-7/WARN]: org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_OBJECT but was STRING at line 1 column 7
[19:48:41] [Thread-7/WARN]: at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:180)
[19:48:41] [Thread-7/WARN]: at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:755)
[19:48:41] [Thread-7/WARN]: at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:694)
[19:48:41] [Thread-7/WARN]: at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R3.updater.BukkitDLUpdaterService.fetchArtifact(BukkitDLUpdaterService.java:53)
[19:48:41] [Thread-7/WARN]: at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R3.updater.BukkitDLUpdaterService.getArtifact(BukkitDLUpdaterService.java:30)
[19:48:41] [Thread-7/WARN]: at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R3.updater.AutoUpdater$1.run(AutoUpdater.java:77)
[19:48:41] [Thread-7/WARN]: Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_OBJECT but was STRING at line 1 column 7
[19:48:41] [Thread-7/WARN]: at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.expect(JsonReader.java:339)
[19:48:41] [Thread-7/WARN]: at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.beginObject(JsonReader.java:322)
[19:48:41] [Thread-7/WARN]: at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:168)
[19:48:41] [Thread-7/WARN]: ... 5 more
[19:48:42] [Server thread/INFO]: [MultiWorld] Loading MultiWorld v5.2.5
[19:48:42] [Server thread/INFO]: [WorldEdit] Loading WorldEdit v5.6.3
[19:48:42] [Server thread/INFO]: [Citizens] Loading Citizens v2.0.13-SNAPSHOT (build 1130)
[19:48:42] [Server thread/INFO]: [Essentials] Loading Essentials vPre2.14.1.3
[19:48:42] [Server thread/INFO]: [EssentialsSpawn] Loading EssentialsSpawn vPre2.14.1.3
[19:48:42] [Server thread/INFO]: [EssentialsChat] Loading EssentialsChat vPre2.14.1.3
[19:48:42] [Server thread/INFO]: [EssentialsAntiBuild] Loading EssentialsAntiBuild vPre2.14.1.3
[19:48:42] [Server thread/INFO]: [EssentialsProtect] Loading EssentialsProtect vPre2.14.1.3
[19:48:42] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing level "world"
[19:48:42] [Server thread/ERROR]: Encountered an unexpected exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R3.scoreboard.CraftCriteria.getFromNMS(CraftCriteria.java:45) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-11-g3fd9db2-b3098jnks]
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R3.scoreboard.CraftObjective.<init>(CraftObjective.java:19) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-11-g3fd9db2-b3098jnks]
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R3.scoreboard.CraftScoreboard.<init>(CraftScoreboard.java:29) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-11-g3fd9db2-b3098jnks]
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R3.scoreboard.CraftScoreboardManager.<init>(CraftScoreboardManager.java:35) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-11-g3fd9db2-b3098jnks]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.MinecraftServer.a(MinecraftServer.java:224) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-11-g3fd9db2-b3098jnks]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.DedicatedServer.init(DedicatedServer.java:182) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-11-g3fd9db2-b3098jnks]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:436) [minecraft_server.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-11-g3fd9db2-b3098jnks]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R3.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:628) [minecraft_server.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.9-R0.2-11-g3fd9db2-b3098jnks]
[19:48:42] [Server thread/ERROR]: This crash report has been saved to: /aternos/servers/randomstuuff/./crash-reports/crash-2016-10-19_19.48.42-server.txt