There are two Minecraft servers running on my Debian server. In order to avoid all the busywork of manually coordinating multiple tmux sessions, I wrote a systemd unit file to do all of that for me:
[Unit]
Description=Minecraft Server: %i
After=network.target
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/opt/minecraft/servers/%i
User=minecraft
Group=minecraft
Type=forking
RemainAfterExit=yes
#Restart=on-abnormal
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tmux new -s mc-%i -d '/usr/bin/java -Xms1G -Xmx4G -jar forge-universal.jar nogui'
ExecStop=/usr/bin/tmux send -t mc-%i 'say SERVER WILL SHUT DOWN IN 10 SECONDS' ENTER
ExecStop=/bin/sleep 10
ExecStop=/usr/bin/tmux send -t mc-%i 'stop' ENTER
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
There are two subdirectories in /opt/minecraft/servers/
: private
and otherserver
. These directories' file listings look like this:
minecraft@server ~ # ls -la /opt/minecraft/servers/private/
total 39180
drwxr-xr-x 9 minecraft minecraft 4096 Dec 20 21:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 minecraft minecraft 4096 Dec 19 21:11 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 2 Dec 20 21:33 banned-ips.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 2 Dec 20 21:33 banned-players.json
drwxr-xr-x 10 minecraft minecraft 4096 Oct 11 16:22 config
drwxr-xr-x 2 minecraft minecraft 4096 Oct 11 16:11 crash-reports
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 181 Oct 11 16:11 eula.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 4888981 Oct 11 16:10 forge-1.12.2-14.23.5.2768-universal.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 minecraft minecraft 39 Oct 11 11:41 forge-universal.jar -> forge-1.12.2-14.23.5.2768-universal.jar
drwxr-xr-x 3 minecraft minecraft 4096 Apr 14 2018 journeymap
drwxr-xr-x 8 minecraft minecraft 4096 Apr 14 2018 libraries
drwxr-xr-x 2 minecraft minecraft 4096 Dec 20 21:32 logs
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 369 Oct 11 15:04 mapcrafter.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 30222121 Oct 11 16:10 minecraft_server.1.12.2.jar
drwxr-xr-x 3 minecraft minecraft 4096 Oct 11 16:21 mods
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 271 Dec 20 21:33 ops.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 843 Dec 20 21:33 server.properties
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 322 Dec 20 21:32 usercache.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 112 Oct 13 23:18 usernamecache.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 171 Dec 18 22:07 whitelist.json
drwxr-xr-x 11 minecraft minecraft 4096 Dec 20 21:33 world
Executing systemctl start minecraft@otherserver
results in a new tmux session for the user minecraft
called mc-otherserver
and a successfully started Minecraft server.
Executing systemctl start minecraft@private
, on the other hand, does literally nothing. The command returns instantly, does not spawn a new tmux session, doesn't start a new Minecraft server, nothing. I checked whether the Minecraft instance was just crashing, but it's not that. Manually executing tmux new -s mc-private -d 'java -Xms1G -Xmx4G -jar forge-universal.jar nogui
in the server's directory works flawlessly and starts the Minecraft server in a new tmux instance, as intended.
Curiously enough, both servers worked just a few days ago. I checked the changelogs for systemd and tmux, but as far as I can tell, they haven't actually been updated for Debian stable for some weeks.
Additionally, journalctl
contains no information about my failing unit file at all, so I'm at a loss here. Does anyone know what could be causing this?
Answer
Sigh. Turns out the minecraft@private
service was listed as loaded failed failed
in systemctl list-units
, and was thus prevented from being started again.
Doing systemctl reset-failed
fixed my problem.
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