Okay, so I wanted to restart my computer. But when I did so, I was ignorant of the Bukkit server running. So when I logged back in, I started the server again. But I was appalled to see this log when I started run.bat: [18:33:14] [main/FATAL]: Failed to start the minecraft server org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was STRING at line 1 column 1 at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:815) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-"24557bc"] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:768) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-"24557bc"] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R1.UserCache.b(SourceFile:148) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-"24557bc"] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R1.UserCache.<init>(SourceFile:42) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-"24557bc"] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R1.MinecraftServer.<init>(MinecraftServer.java:126) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-"24557bc"] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R1.DedicatedServer.<init>(DedicatedServer.java:38) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-"24557bc"] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R1.MinecraftServer.main(MinecraftServer.java:820) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-"24557bc"] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.Main.main(Main.java:159) [craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-"24557bc"] Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was STRING at line 1 column 1 at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.beginArray(JsonReader.java:338) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-"24557bc"] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.com.google.gson.internal.bind.CollectionTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(CollectionTypeAdapterFactory.java:79) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-"24557bc"] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.com.google.gson.internal.bind.CollectionTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(CollectionTypeAdapterFactory.java:60) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-"24557bc"] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:803) ~[craftbukkit.jar:git-Bukkit-"24557bc"] ... 7 more Can anyone relate or resolve this? Thanks, JohnCollin.
Delete these files, one or multiple of them seemed to have been corrupted: banned-ips.json banned-players.json ops.json usercache.json white-list.json