Read Timed Out

Hi, I have had this issue before with other servers and I cannot figure it out. After a while of running my server, everyone disconnects and the console says "Read timed out". It doesn't give any errors, it doesn't give any information of the matter or anything, and doesn't crash either. And since it doesn't crash per se, that means my automatic script to start up the server doesn't work. I can type on the console and it doesn't show that anything happens, no one can connect when it does this, and I have to close the console completely without saving and restart it.

Thanks for reading, and if it helps, here's a list of my plugins:

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10:10:46 [INFO] Plugins (44): AssemblyLineFurnace, HerobrineAI, StrangeWeapons, FireWorkArrows, PermissionsBukkit, Spout, MorePhysics, Fear the Darkness, MyArrows, MossyCobble, Vault, Backpack, PlayerHeads, More-Mobs, Aqualock, MoreSilverfish, PossessMe, AutoCraft, dynmap, QuantumConnectors, DragonTravel, ChatMe, ExtraHardMode, MineReaper, FalseBlood, mmoCore, AutoSaver, mmoParty, Essentials, Trade, mmoDamage, WorldEdit, EssentialsProtect, DynamicEconomy, EssentialsSpawn, EssentialsAntiBuild, mmoPet, mmoTarget, CraftBook, ChestShop, EssentialsChat, SuperMobsX, Factions, Dynmap-Factions

 

Hosting from home or a hosting company?

 

This most likely means that one of your plugins is freezing the main thread, ie infinite loop or blocking (waiting for network/file read that never responds) You have a lot of plugins, I wouldn't doubt that some of them are conflicting (I generally stay below 20 plugins per server). try remove the none essential plugins and see if your problem is fixed, if it is, start adding them back one by one. If not, keep removing plugins until you find the problem.

 

I don't host at my house, I host at a location which I own a server at. I don't use a hosting company, but I have a server built for hosting.

Yeah I know that it is freezing and I know it was a specific plugin doing it. I have all my plugins set up and I have fixed them all, making sure they don't conflict. From looking through other people's threads that have the same issue, I'm pretty sure it's vault that is causing it. The only problem is that vault is one of the essential plugins of my server, and many plugins have a hard dependency of it. I want to fix this issue, but I am not sure how I would go about it other than just removing Vault, which I wish I didn't have to do. I'm not sure why this started happening all of a sudden though, it was working before and I didn't change anything on my server.

 

Grinjr

remove vault see if it works

 

I removed vault yesterday and let the server run for a whole day and went to sleep. Over night it usually crashes, it did not crash at all. The only problem is that vault is a hard dependency of a lot of plugins. :\

 

Most likely you have a plugin enabling itself that requires Vault which is causing the issue.

It is programmatically impossible for Vault to lock the server.

 

I'll try removing individual plugins every night before bed which require Vault to see which it is. This might take a while. I'll reply when I figure out which one it is. Thanks for your reply.

 

Do you use any Votifier's like the VaultListener?

 

No, I don't think I do. Here is my list of plugins:

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15:02:38 [INFO] Plugins (42): AssemblyLineFurnace, HerobrineAI, StrangeWeapons, FireWorkArrows, PermissionsBukkit, Spout, MorePhysics, Fear the Darkness, MyArrows, MossyCobble, Vault, Backpack, ijmh, PlayerHeads, More-Mobs, Aqualock, MoreSilverfish, PossessMe, AutoCraft, dynmap, QuantumConnectors, DragonTravel, ChatMe, ExtraHardMode, mmoCore, AutoSaver, mmoParty, Essentials, Trade, mmoDamage, WorldEdit, EssentialsProtect, DynamicEconomy, EssentialsSpawn, EssentialsAntiBuild, mmoPet, mmoTarget, CraftBook, ChestShop, EssentialsChat, Factions, Dynmap-Factions

I also have Minereaper, but I disabled that temporarily to see if that is the plugin causing the issue.

 

Looks like DynamicEconomy has an update checker that runs on the main thread, this may cause problems everytime a player connects if the update site goes down, or becomes unresponsive. Do you have update checking enabled?

It also appears other people have had issues with DynamicEconomy locking the main thread:

 

I actually do have DynamicEconomy's update checker enabled, I just barely disabled it before I saw this post seeing if it would fix it. Someone updated DynamicEconomy for 1.4.7 and I am using their version. I was going to end up removing it anyways and getting iConomy or something along with a sign shop/item frame shop. I haven't ever gotten that error, just a read timed out.

I got an error a couple of days ago with it that was similar and I kept seeing "RandomEvent" in the error, so I deleted the randomevents.yml in the config and let it generate a new one. This fixed the error and I stopped seeing it.

 

Yah, the way DynamicEconomy handles it's updates makes it prone to breaking the server if a player connects while curse's servers are down (I'm pretty positive they go down nightly).

 

I removed DynamicEconomy and got Gringotts instead as I was going to do, it seems to be fine now, server hasn't crashed at all since I removed DynamicEconomy. That also makes sense as to why my server crashed every night when I went to bed. I believe this issue is resolved.
Thanks for the reply and the help, Sleaker!

 

I've actually had this problem on and off for quite some time but mostly with me. I have always hosted the server externally on providers. Usually on the opposite end of the globe to me.

When I upgraded to 1.4.7 RC0 basically this started happening constantly. To the point where I cannot play on the server AT all. What happens is I connect and it appears as though I'm connected and able to move about. But if I try to do anything or chat or anything it is not seen by the server. This has also caused me to fall through the world a few times to the point of even dying and losing a full inventory of stuff with no way of doing anything about it.

Now when it first started happening I tried using the vanilla minecraft server to see if that worked better and it did. But now even that seems to be doing it. I've removed all plugins (obviously if it happened on the vanilla server as well) and it is still doing it. So my particular issue is not a plugin issue because it happens regardless of the plugins.

A few people in the past have mentioned that it is a possible data issue. IE the download isn't occuring fast enough. I'm just not really sure what to do to resolve the issue. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

I'm having this problem also. I have two guesses why it happens:

1. Too many plugins. There were no problems when I had 20 plugins, but I recently got Dynmap and a bunch of other plugins bringing the plugin count to 30, and now I'm having problems...
2. Certain actions cause it. I installed PlotMe and claimed a plot. I was trying to create a roller coaster but it crashed at the same moment of the building EVERY time, and I tried to make it as soon as I started the server back up. It also happens when I try to do other certain things.
3. Building/destroying too rapidly. I found that, for example, if I build/destroy, by average, 2 blocks per second, the server crashes after a while... Is there a plugin to prevent building/destroying rapidly?

I did also downgrade my CraftBukkit from 1.5.1-R0.2 to 1.5.1-R0.1 and it seemed to work. But then after bringing it back up to 1.5.1-R0.2 I experienced problems again. Try downgrading and see if it works for you.

 

This might narrow it down, I get read timed out everytime I do /balancetop.