I think the following would help to diagnose where the problem lies:
*) your operating system and details on the machine where you tried to start the server on (is it a local machine you have full control on or it is a remote machine, etc.)
*) your Java version
*) the EXACT procedure how did you start the server: which command, which environment,...
*) the contents of your server.properties file.
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