When trying to run the Minecraft server from the .exe, it just creates a "logs" folder with an empty .txt file called "latest". Redownloaded the .exe from the website and tried again, and got the same thing. I then downloaded the .jar file and tried to run that from command line, and got several errors. Errors:
D:\Games\Minecraft>java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.<init>(SourceFile:113)
at lm.<init>(SourceFile:50)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.main(SourceFile:590)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: failed to create a child event loop
at io.netty.util.concurrent.MultithreadEventExecutorGroup.<init>(MultithreadEventExecutorGroup.java:61)
at io.netty.channel.MultithreadEventLoopGroup.<init>(MultithreadEventLoopGroup.java:49)
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoopGroup.<init>(NioEventLoopGroup.java:61)
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoopGroup.<init>(NioEventLoopGroup.java:52)
at mv.<clinit>(SourceFile:31)
... 3 more
Caused by: io.netty.channel.ChannelException: failed to open a new selector
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.openSelector(NioEventLoop.java:128)
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.<init>(NioEventLoop.java:120)
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoopGroup.newChild(NioEventLoopGroup.java:87)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.MultithreadEventExecutorGroup.<init>(MultithreadEventExecutorGroup.java:57)
... 7 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unable to establish loopback connection
at sun.nio.ch.PipeImpl$Initializer.run(Unknown Source)
at sun.nio.ch.PipeImpl$Initializer.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.nio.ch.PipeImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.nio.ch.SelectorProviderImpl.openPipe(Unknown Source)
at java.nio.channels.Pipe.open(Unknown Source)
at sun.nio.ch.WindowsSelectorImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.nio.ch.WindowsSelectorProvider.openSelector(Unknown Source)
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.openSelector(NioEventLoop.java:126)
... 10 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect0(Native Method)
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.nio.channels.SocketChannel.open(Unknown Source)
... 19 more
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Something on your computer is blocking an internal connection in the server.
See MC-34749