DietPi-Software | Add Minecraft Server

[Fourdee]

http://dietpi.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=445

[xenfomation]

My youngest son just went bonkers as he walked by me a few moments ago. He says "Please and Thank You!" because I used to mod MineCraft ;-) Family dogs, weird characters, ability to break blocks easier, etc. Looks like I'll have to code for him (or teach him a trade!)

[Fourdee]

ARM64 compile didnt go well:

Scanning dependencies of target Cuberite
[ 86%] [ 87%] [ 87%] [ 87%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/Cuberite.dir/Biom                                                                 eDef.cpp.o
Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/Cuberite.dir/BlockID.cpp.o
Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/Cuberite.dir/BlockInfo.cpp.o
Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/Cuberite.dir/BlockArea.cpp.o
[ 87%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/Cuberite.dir/BrewingRecipes.cpp.o
[ 88%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/Cuberite.dir/Broadcaster.cpp.o
[ 88%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/Cuberite.dir/BoundingBox.cpp.o
[ 88%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/Cuberite.dir/ByteBuffer.cpp.o
/root/cuberite/src/ByteBuffer.cpp:44:3: error: #error Cannot determine endiannes                                                                 s of this platform
  #error Cannot determine endianness of this platform
   ^
[ 88%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/Cuberite.dir/ChatColor.cpp.o
[ 88%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/Cuberite.dir/Chunk.cpp.o
[ 89%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/Cuberite.dir/ChunkData.cpp.o
src/CMakeFiles/Cuberite.dir/build.make:215: recipe for target 'src/CMakeFiles/Cu                                                                 berite.dir/ByteBuffer.cpp.o' failed
make[2]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/Cuberite.dir/ByteBuffer.cpp.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:953: recipe for target 'src/CMakeFiles/Cuberite.dir/all' fa                                                                 iled
make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/Cuberite.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:117: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Same with

cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -DFORCE_32=off

[Fourdee]

Cuberite is done. All devices, excluding ARM64 (at the moment).

Will take a look at Bukkit/Spigot next.

Cuberite is c++, Spigot is Java, this made me chuckle:

[ghost]

@Fourdee

Might want to take a look at MineOS It also has detailed instructions on how to adapt within a few minutes to nearly any OS. It's very easy to deploy. I have been using for the past 7 years. It's lightweight and handles almost all minecraft modding platforms.

[Fourdee]

https://minecraft.codeemo.com/mineoswiki/index.php?title=MineOS-node_(apt-get)

[ghost]

Here's the main website which has a short description of features and screenshots.

In the event that anyone needs support adapting MineOS to DietPi the author Hexparrot en. (Will Dizon) response usually in about 24 hours here. Hexparrot is extremely open and helpful so you're free to ask anything.

[Fourdee]

Notes:

Runs straight after install, but not after a reboot:

root@DietPi:/usr/games/minecraft# supervisorctl start mineos
mineos: ERROR (no such file)

Runs from cmd line.

root@DietPi:/usr/games/minecraft# node webui.js
base_directory found in mineos.conf, using: /var/games/minecraft
MineOS webui listening on HTTPS://0.0.0.0:8443
info: Starting up server, using commit: c2cff9d removed pocketmine profiles

^^^ hangs, no progress

root@DietPi:/usr/games/minecraft# cat /var/log/mineos.log
{"level":"info","message":"Starting up server, using commit: c2cff9d removed pocketmine profiles\n","timestamp":"2016-06-07T15:25:49.059Z"}
{"level":"info","message":"Starting up server, using commit: c2cff9d removed pocketmine profiles\n","timestamp":"2016-06-07T15:27:49.195Z"}

arm64 (need to check FP for node on other devices that install via nodesource.com)

#correct the node filepath for supervisor mineos
sed -i '/^command=/c\command=/usr/local/bin/node webui.js' /etc/supervisor/conf.d/mineos.conf

[Fourdee]

Odroid C2, arm64:

[Fourdee]

Note: DietPi install will use OracleJava instead of OpenJRE for maximum performance.

[ghost]

@Fourdee You want to recommend as you do with web servers such as Owncloud to run it off an external medium instead of the DS card. Running a minecraft server off of a SD/thumb drive would lead to very poor performance and SD/thumb failure. I would go as far to say a ssd/hard drive is required for hosting minecraft.

[Fourdee]

@Zone22 Thanks for the info. Any ideas where the read/writes are to? If not, I'll try and contact Hexparrot.

Issues with the RPi install (NODEJS from apt-get). Lower version of NODEJS than expected, web service also fails to run correctly (missing content):

pm WARN engine angular-translate@2.11.0: wanted: {"node":">=4.3"} (current: {"node":"0.10.29","npm":"1.4.21"})
npm WARN engine code@1.5.0: wanted: {"node":">=0.10.32"} (current: {"node":"0.10.29","npm":"1.4.21"})
npm WARN engine lab@5.18.1: wanted: {"node":">=0.10.40"} (current: {"node":"0.10.29","npm":"1.4.21"})
npm WARN engine hawk@3.1.3: wanted: {"node":">=0.10.32"} (current: {"node":"0.10.29","npm":"1.4.21"})
npm WARN engine address@1.0.0: wanted: {"node":">= 0.12.0"} (current: {"node":"0.10.29","npm":"1.4.21"})

Looks like I'l need to compile NODEJS for all devices, not just arm64 currently.

[ghost]

@Fourdee The majority of the the of the read/writes takes place in the following directory. '/var/games/minecraft' That directory will contain all servers instances created along with server files, archives, backups and so on. I would redirect the folder 'minecraft' to an external medium.

Extra information if you need it. /var/games/minecraft/servers/myserver, where myserver is anything end-user chooses. The resulting structure should look like: . |-archive |---myserver |-backup |---myserver |-import |-profiles |---vanilla172 |-servers |---myserver |-----logs |-----world |-------DIM-1 |-------DIM1 |-------data |-------players |-------region edit: I would post or open a ticket on github about compiling NODEJS. Part of his vision is to mature MineOS. Will most likely work with you push updates to MineOS if that's needed. At the very least Will would have advice for compiling across a wide range of devices.

[Fourdee]

@Zone22 I'll probably move /var/games/minecraft to /mnt/dietpi_userdata/mineos. If user has a dedicated USB drive, it will be stored there automatically via symlink.

Heres a working install script for node: https://github.com/taaem/nodejs-linux-installer I had to add support for arm64 and made a pull request: https://github.com/taaem/nodejs-linux-installer/pull/8

[Fourdee]

Completed. Available for all devices.

doc: http://dietpi.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5&p=2069#p2069

@Zone22 Tested on C2 and RPi3, however, I dont own a copy of Minecraft to fully test it. Would you be able to test the installation with a copy of Minecraft, using the DietPi testing branch (https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/blob/master/TESTING-BRANCH.md)?

[ghost]

@Fourdee Testing on Pine64 as it's only available hardware I have access to at the moment. There are three issues. One. I can't start a server instance. MineOS.log

{"level":"info","message":"[Test] Discovered server","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:39:57.242Z"}
{"level":"error","message":"[Test] Create tail on logs/latest.log failed","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:39:57.333Z"}
{"level":"info","message":"[Test] Watching for file generation: logs/latest.log","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:39:57.336Z"}
{"level":"error","message":"[Test] Create tail on server.log failed","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:39:57.426Z"}
{"level":"info","message":"[Test] Watching for file generation: server.log","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:39:57.427Z"}
{"level":"error","message":"[Test] Create tail on proxy.log.0 failed","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:39:57.434Z"}
{"level":"info","message":"[Test] Watching for file generation: proxy.log.0","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:39:57.435Z"}
{"level":"info","message":"Starting up server, using commit: c2cff9d removed pocketmine profiles\n","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:39:58.306Z"}
{"level":"info","message":"[Test] eula.txt detected: ACCEPTED (eula=true)","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:39:58.448Z"}
{"level":"info","message":"[Test] autostart = false","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:40:02.889Z"}
{"level":"error","message":"[Test] Aborted server startup; condition not met: true","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:40:02.894Z"}
{"level":"info","message":"[WEBUI] root connected from 192.168.1.122","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:41:59.386Z"}
{"level":"info","message":"[WEBUI] Downloading official profiles.","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:42:01.020Z"}
{"level":"info","message":"[Test] root (192.168.1.122) joined server namespace","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:42:02.002Z"}
{"level":"info","message":"[Test] 192.168.1.122 issued command : \"start\"","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:42:10.483Z"}
{"level":"info","message":"[Test] received request \"start\"","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:42:10.537Z"}
{"command":"start","uuid":"903cb650-2d8f-11e6-978b-959104acd134","time_initiated":1465400530486,"success":false,"err":127,"time_resolved":1465400530736,"level":"error","message":"[Test] command \"start\" errored out:","timestamp":"2016-06-08T15:42:10.747Z"}

Two. I believe the wrong folder was redirected to the external Medium. Currently... Should be... Three. A standard user needs to be created during the initial install as a web UI should never be managed through root due to file permission issues. - Source I would recommend the default user of 'mc' With a password of 'dietpi'

[Fourdee]

@Zone22 Thanks for the test

Testing on Pine64 as it's only available hardware I have access to at the moment One. I can't start a server instance.

I just did a fresh install on C2 to verify. Working fine. Did you accept the EULA? Required to start server. Failing that, may be an issue limited to the Pine64 image. I'am still waiting for mine to turn up, so not much I can do my end.

Two. I believe the wrong folder was redirected to the external Medium.

Well spotted :+1: . I'll move and symlink /var/games/minecraft aswell.

Three. A standard user needs to be created during the initial install as a web UI should never be managed through root due to file permission issues. - Source I would recommend the default user of 'mc' With a password of 'dietpi'

I'll look into it.

[Fourdee]

/var/games/minecraft is now symlinked to /mnt/dietpi_userdata/mineos/serverdata

And, user is now mineos

[Fourdee]

I'll mark this as closed. MineOS and Cuberite is enough Minecraft servers for now :) If users want to see more choices, please make a git ticket for the request.