I have a 1.7.9 bukkit server and I removed a couple of plugins and reloaded the server. Then, the prefixes and permissions were gone. I can't figure out what is causing the problem so I need help. Here is my groups.yml: http://pastebin.com/eiBfkCdZ and here is my config.yml for essentials: http://pastebin.com/SrkH4aUd
Don't reload the server. For permissions, you want to do a /manload. Many Groupmanager files (at least the config, I know) reset when you do a full reload.
I tried everything, but it's still not working. It just disappeared after I removed plugins. Before I removed them, they were fine. Every time in the past when this happened, I edited a json or yml and parsed it. I didn't edit any yml's or json's before, though.
"I removed plugins" ... "then prefixes were gone" ==> One of the plugins you were using was responsible for the chat formatting Prefixes and suffixes are present... but a chat formatting system is required to display them, or incorporate them into a displayname.
depends, when you removed the plugins, did you simply remove jar files and keep the settings folders before, or did you wipe the settings folders and files as well, resulting in default brand new config files added for those plugins, one of which in the past you may have had to configure to format your chat correctly... Pastebin a full fresh startup log (not /reload, but a clean start) to see what is on your server, what versions, what is running, what has errors and is throwing a red herring into the list, etc..
I removed both the folder and the .jar. Here is the pastebin of a startup: http://pastebin.com/11RFfg9t
That is... a lot of stuff. Lots of worlds... The FriendMe plugin is broken to the point it should be removed if you can't find a version to run specifically for your server build. Multiverse-portals is having a problem making files it needs - its made too many of them already. Go in the /plugins/Multiverse-Portal folder and remove all the debug files, that will clear that error next time. Your various and likely chat formatting plugins: EssentialsChat I dont think any others likely will (maybe survival games?? things like towny and factions definitely will, but i dont see any such big definitelys, so its most likely just EssentialsChat In the essentials config.yml file, there is a section about 3/4 the way down dealing with chat formatting, and it provides several examples (commented out) of different ways to format the chat, with one uncommented out, and likely it is using that format. Modify that format string to what you want. http://wiki.ess3.net/wiki/Chat_Formatting <|Refer to this You may need to change the "change-displayname" setting (one of the first few lines in the config file) to make it include the prefix/suffix in chat. To confirm that essentialschat is controlling your chat formatting, modify it to put a few >>> or ! marks or something in the string, then do /ess reload (if you are editing the file while the server is on). Type away, see if the extra marks appear (assuming you didn't break the yml file and get errors in the console just then); if they have, then you have found the plugin that is formatting your chat, and can just keep tweaking from there until you get the results. If essentialschat isn't controlling it, then loook through all of your arena games and battle games, something that puts players on teams and groups, and might be formatting the chat to show groups and teams, look for chat formatting strings in their configs.
So apparently the Group Manager glitched and the groups.yml reset and there was nothing in the prefixes. But now, the essentials chat glitched so the group manager and essentials prefix is showing up.
