I'm extremely flustered.

I have tried a plethora of approaches to get this awful plugin business working... It refuses.
If I even so much as think about touching a setting, I'm confronted with [SEVERE] errors. (You're a terrible server. You don't serve me at all!) To start, help out with my Permissions plugin.

I want the group Admin to have all permissions and the group Default (Guess which one's the default group?) To have permission to build, register, login, and teleport to spawn with SpawnX's /spawn command, as well as lwc stuff, but that'll be saved for later. For now, tell me what's wrong with this, in the Permissions/world directory, groups.yml:

groups:
Default:
default: true
info:
Prefix: ''
Suffix: ''
build: true
Admin:
default: false
info:
Prefix: '&3[Admin]&f'
Suffix: ''
build: true
permissions:
-'*'

'' is of course a pair of singles, not one double, quote. Whatever it is, it's also causing xAuth to fail drastically. I have h2.jar in my lib directory, if that makes a difference.

Edit: Since server.txt could not be attached as an attachment (Too large perhaps? Aggravating nonetheless) here it is as a spoiler.

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2011-07-15 01:25:30 [INFO] Starting minecraft server version Beta 1.7.2
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [INFO] Loading properties
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [INFO] Starting Minecraft server on *:25565
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [WARNING] **** SERVER IS RUNNING IN OFFLINE/INSECURE MODE!
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [WARNING] The server will make no attempt to authenticate usernames. Beware.
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [WARNING] While this makes the game possible to play without internet access, it also opens up the ability for hackers to connect with any username they choose.
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [WARNING] To change this, set "online-mode" to "true" in the server.settings file.
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [INFO] This server is running Craftbukkit version git-Bukkit-0.0.0-904-g9277096-b953jnks (MC: 1.7.2)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] while scanning a simple key
in "<reader>", line 15, column 1:
-'*'
^
could not found expected ':'
in "<reader>", line 15, column 5:
^

2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.scanner.ScannerImpl.removePossibleSimpleKey(ScannerImpl.java:456)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.scanner.ScannerImpl.fetchStreamEnd(ScannerImpl.java:521)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.scanner.ScannerImpl.fetchMoreTokens(ScannerImpl.java:248)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.scanner.ScannerImpl.checkToken(ScannerImpl.java:183)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.parser.ParserImpl$ParseBlockMappingValue.produce(ParserImpl.java:592)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.parser.ParserImpl.peekEvent(ParserImpl.java:163)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.parser.ParserImpl.checkEvent(ParserImpl.java:148)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeNode(Composer.java:132)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeMappingNode(Composer.java:230)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeNode(Composer.java:160)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeDocument(Composer.java:122)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.getSingleNode(Composer.java:105)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.constructor.BaseConstructor.getSingleData(BaseConstructor.java:124)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml.load(Yaml.java:264)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.bukkit.util.config.Configuration.load(Configuration.java:82)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at com.nijiko.data.YamlGroupStorage.reload(YamlGroupStorage.java:179)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at com.nijiko.data.YamlGroupStorage.<init>(YamlGroupStorage.java:30)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at com.nijiko.data.YamlCreator.getGroupStorage(YamlCreator.java:57)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at com.nijiko.data.StorageFactory.getGroupStorage(StorageFactory.java:129)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at com.nijiko.permissions.ModularControl.forceLoadWorld(ModularControl.java:96)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at com.nijiko.permissions.ModularControl.loadWorld(ModularControl.java:86)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at com.nijiko.permissions.ModularControl.load(ModularControl.java:116)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at com.nijikokun.bukkit.Permissions.Permissions.setupPermissions(Permissions.java:181)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at com.nijikokun.bukkit.Permissions.Permissions.onLoad(Permissions.java:133)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.loadPlugins(CraftServer.java:121)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.<init>(CraftServer.java:89)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.ServerConfigurationManager.<init>(ServerConfigurationManager.java:51)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.init(MinecraftServer.java:132)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:335)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:422)
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] [Permissions] Unable to load permission data.
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [SEVERE] [Permissions] Shutting down Permissions due to error(s).
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [INFO] [Permissions] (Yeti) was initialized.
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [INFO] [Permissions] (Yeti) disabled successfully.
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [INFO] Preparing level "world"
2011-07-15 01:25:30 [INFO] Preparing start region for level 0 (Seed: 1998791472)
2011-07-15 01:25:31 [INFO] Preparing spawn area: 93%
2011-07-15 01:25:31 [INFO] [Permissions] SQL Interface enabled!
2011-07-15 01:25:31 [SEVERE] Error occurred while enabling xAuth v2.0b3.5 (Is it up to date?): com/nijikokun/bukkit/Permissions/Permissions
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/nijikokun/bukkit/Permissions/Permissions
at com.cypherx.xauth.xAuthPermissions.setup(xAuthPermissions.java:17)
at com.cypherx.xauth.xAuth.onEnable(xAuth.java:61)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.setEnabled(JavaPlugin.java:126)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.enablePlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:857)
at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.enablePlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:264)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.loadPlugin(CraftServer.java:151)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.enablePlugins(CraftServer.java:136)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.e(MinecraftServer.java:284)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.a(MinecraftServer.java:271)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.init(MinecraftServer.java:148)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:335)
at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:422)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.nijikokun.bukkit.Permissions.Permissions
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:36)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:24)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
... 12 more
2011-07-15 01:25:31 [INFO] Done (0.120s)! For help, type "help" or "?"
2011-07-15 01:25:41 [INFO] Stopping the server..
2011-07-15 01:25:41 [INFO] Stopping server
2011-07-15 01:25:41 [INFO] [Permissions] SQL Interface disabled!
2011-07-15 01:25:41 [INFO] [xAuth] v2.0b3.5 Disabled!
2011-07-15 01:25:41 [INFO] Saving chunks
2011-07-15 01:25:41 [INFO] Stopping server
2011-07-15 01:25:41 [INFO] Saving chunks

 

When you edit the .yml file DON'T use the tab button. Use 4spaces instead. I would recommend getting Notepad++ which is free, as it let's you see things more clearly so you know what's going on

 

I didn't use any tabs. If I had, you would have seen them in the post.

 

They are not spaced properly look on the permissions page for the example