Launching the server jar with the next command:

java -jar -Xmx8G server.jar

causes a crash with the following output:

[21:30:16] [main/ERROR]: Unable to bootstrap registry 'minecraft:entity_type'
[21:30:16] [main/ERROR]: Unable to bootstrap registry 'minecraft:feature'
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at gl.H(SourceFile:94)
at gl.a(SourceFile:132)
at java.util.LinkedHashMap$LinkedEntrySet.forEach(LinkedHashMap.java:671)
at gl.<clinit>(SourceFile:131)
at aoc.a(SourceFile:144)
at aoc.<clinit>(SourceFile:150)
at ckx.<clinit>(SourceFile:23)
at cka.<clinit>(SourceFile:64)
at cqg.<clinit>(SourceFile:77)
at cif.<clinit>(SourceFile:64)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.<clinit>(SourceFile:179)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at bsh.<init>(SourceFile:44)
at bqk.<clinit>(SourceFile:9)
... 11 more