I wish someone could find a fix for this. My server doesn't throw any plugin errors, so it must be a client-side error. I'm having the same problems. I can't connect to servers that don't use Tekkit either.
Someone help!
Nevermind, it seems while I was posting that, the problem fixed itself. The server's done this twice now all with the destruction catalyst issue.
Okay, now my question is, how can I prevent this happening in future? My server is slowly growing and it's a pain in the neck.
The sequence of events is in the title. A kid used the destruction catalyst causing the server to crash then when anyone joins, the console throws the following message before booting the player... I (hosting the server on my computer) can get on the server and play just fine. Hence why I don't know what to play with in the configs.
Here's the error the console throws when a player joins. (iRaZeTiiGeRzZv1 is the player who tried to join.)
18:28:51 [iNFO] Sending serverside check to: iRaZeTiiGeRzZv1
2012-07-30 18:28:52 [WARNING] Failed to handle packet: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can't create an EntityItem for a null item
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can't create an EntityItem for a null item
at net.minecraft.server.EntityItem.<init>(EntityItem.java:29)
at ee.core.PickupHandler.onItemPickup(PickupHandler.java:29)
at forge.ForgeHooks.onItemPickup(ForgeHooks.java:165)
at net.minecraft.server.EntityItem.a_(EntityItem.java:166)
at net.minecraft.server.EntityHuman.l(EntityHuman.java:363)
at net.minecraft.server.EntityHuman.e(EntityHuman.java:355)
at net.minecraft.server.EntityLiving.F_(EntityLiving.java:447)
at net.minecraft.server.EntityHuman.F_(EntityHuman.java:168)
at net.minecraft.server.EntityPlayer.a(EntityPlayer.java:233)
at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.a(NetServerHandler.java:375)
at net.minecraft.server.Packet10Flying.handle(SourceFile:126)
at net.minecraft.server.NetworkManager.b(NetworkManager.java:234)
at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.a(NetServerHandler.java:121)
at net.minecraft.server.NetworkListenThread.a(NetworkListenThread.java:78)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.w(MinecraftServer.java:556)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:453)
at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:492)
2012-07-30 18:28:52 [iNFO] [MCBans] iRaZeTiiGeRzZv1 has disconnected!