eisenia

I had this issue for the first time with a different hosting company. They say the same thing: the player must already have been on the server once in order for the admin to be able to whitelist them.

It's not true though. I had trouble whitelisting a brand new player, but I also had trouble whitelisting an existing player whom I'd removed just to see if I could whitelist him again (poor guineapig).

The host says it's a common problem and recommended removing the whitelist.json file and rebuilding it from scratch. That got 25 percent of the players off the whitelist: I couldn't add them back ingame or from the console.

However, I waited for 6 hours and tried again, and hey presto I was suddenly able to add all of them ingame!

So I'd say this is somehow an issue to do with the (connection with the) nameservers

Razinao's suggestion to remove the Xerces file from user/library/java has done the trick! Everything's back to normal and 1.7.2 is working fine.

Same here, never have any sound anymore. (Also, I can't launch the game online and created a launcher thread on that.) I do not have an assets or a sounds folder in my freshly downloaded Minecraft folder. Is that normal? This problem occurs in any version of Minecraft that I play. Currently 1.6.4 and the snapshot 13w43 snapshot.

development console info:

Refreshing local version list...
Launcher 1.2.7 (through bootstrap 5) started on osx...
Current time is Oct 22, 2013 10:26:58 AM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Mac OS X'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '10.8.5'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'x86_64'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.6.0_51'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Apple Inc.'
System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '64'
Refreshing remote version list...
Refresh complete.
Loaded 2 profile(s); selected 'Eisenia'
Refreshing auth...
Logging in with access token
Unhandled exception in executor net.minecraft.launcher.updater.ExceptionalThreadPoolExecutor$ExceptionalFutureTask@41d753b7
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.apache.xerces.dom.DeferredElementImpl.getTextContent()Ljava/lang/String;
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:222)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:83)
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.ExceptionalThreadPoolExecutor$ExceptionalFutureTask.done(ExceptionalThreadPoolExecutor.java:54)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerSetException(FutureTask.java:273)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:307)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)
Caused by: java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.apache.xerces.dom.DeferredElementImpl.getTextContent()Ljava/lang/String;
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.VersionManager.getResourceFiles(VersionManager.java:283)
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.VersionManager.downloadResources(VersionManager.java:236)
at net.minecraft.launcher.Launcher$1.run(Launcher.java:156)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:439)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
... 4 more

Getting syncinfo for selected version
Queueing library & version downloads
Download job 'Version & Libraries' started (8 threads, 19 files)
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/net/java/jinput/jinput-platform/2.0.5/jinput-platform-2.0.5-natives-osx.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/argo/argo/2.25_fixed/argo-2.25_fixed.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/commons-io/commons-io/2.4/commons-io-2.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/codecwav/20101023/codecwav-20101023.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/librarylwjglopenal/20100824/librarylwjglopenal-20100824.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/net/java/jinput/jinput/2.0.5/jinput-2.0.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/org/lwjgl/lwjgl/lwjgl-platform/2.9.0/lwjgl-platform-2.9.0-natives-osx.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/net/sf/jopt-simple/jopt-simple/4.5/jopt-simple-4.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/codecjorbis/20101023/codecjorbis-20101023.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/com/google/code/gson/gson/2.2.2/gson-2.2.2.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/org/lwjgl/lwjgl/lwjgl_util/2.9.0/lwjgl_util-2.9.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/org/bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk15on/1.47/bcprov-jdk15on-1.47.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.1/commons-lang3-3.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/org/lwjgl/lwjgl/lwjgl/2.9.0/lwjgl-2.9.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/com/google/guava/guava/14.0/guava-14.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/soundsystem/20120107/soundsystem-20120107.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/libraryjavasound/20101123/libraryjavasound-20101123.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/libraries/net/java/jutils/jutils/1.0.0/jutils-1.0.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading /Users/Jessica/Library/Application Support/minecraft/versions/1.6.4/1.6.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Job 'Version & Libraries' finished successfully

This just happened to me today with the 1.6 pre-release. I have Mac OSX 10.8.4. So I guess this hasn't been fixed yet?