creating a Minecraft server but whenever I try to start it, it stops at "preparing spawn area: 0%"

so recently I built a home server from part I had laying around, I installed Openjdk 21 headless and installed the Minecraft java server from the Minecraft website, I dedicated 4G to the server but it always stops at )% for the spawn area, I also installed screen, if anyone could help I would really appreciate it.