Establishing a link to your Minecraft server on CentOS 8 is possible!
Establishing a link to your Minecraft server on CentOS 8 is possible!
I prepared and cleared the drive partitions, reinstalled CentOS, re-downloaded the server following the instructions at https://www.spinup.com/setting-up-a-mine...-centos-8/. Everything now functions perfectly! Thanks a lot to @Eigenvektor & @Master Disaster for all the assistance.
Note: I initially thought my tone might have seemed sarcastic, but it was just that. Later I found a minor problem: the machine still sleeps when I close the lid. I changed most lid-related settings in "/etc/systemd/logind.conf" to ignore them. I also tried running "systemctl restart systemd-logind", which prompted for authorization and highlighted the cursor red, but it didn’t resolve the issue.
The solution came when I uncommented the .conf file by removing the # symbols.
Sometimes beginning fresh is the simplest choice. I'm not very experienced with power configurations, as I mainly use a desktop computer. Could you look into the laptop's BIOS for any settings that might trigger it to shut down? The logind.conf files should be set correctly according to what you know. You might have already tried the link here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/52645. Perhaps reviewing the kernel.log (as mentioned in the stack exchange post) could reveal any sleep mode activity.
I figured it out! It turns out every line in the logind.conf file was just ignored, which is something I might have missed, but I’m mostly used to the // for comments. Adjusting that fixed everything and the server is now running smoothly!