I can launch my minecraft server just fine by opening the jar file; however, when launching via terminal, the server freezes at 

[Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 0%

I don't believe its ram related because I have been launching at from 1gb to 6 gb and get the same error. Launching a fresh server also gives me the same issue. I want to dedicate more than the one gb of ram it runs by default but i can't because it freezes at 0% anytime I use terminal to start it, regardless of the amount of memory I am allocating. Also tried --forceUpdate and --clearCache to no avail.

The same command in the same world worked perfectly fine when 1.14 first launched