The forge download is happening and the forge install seems to be happening and I cannot find an error, but I am left without an actual server jar and only have the installer jar. This does not work and leads to errors mentioning X11 issues on second/etc runs.
Reproduction Steps
Create Server
Set forge version and download/update
start installer and installer seems to be a success
We are left with no server jar and server will not run
If you’re on a Forge version older than 1.17, try and select the server Jar under Configuration → Server Settings → Server Jar, as sometimes the installer is picked up as the server Jar.
If you’re on version 1.17 or above, try and stop/start the instance, otherwise try and add nogui under Configuration → Server Settings → Additional server arguments
You got it 100% on the second point. It was seeing the installer as the server jar, but after fixing point 2, that also started following the proper flow. I found someone else talking about it, but I manually added nogui to the unix arguments text file for this instance and after that it managed to sort itself out.