So I recently had to debug why my server was exiting after initialising (first reply here https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=68742). As I said in the other topic, the log didn't give much info.
I tried turning on verbose logging, but that didn't give much more information either ...

Well, I managed to solve the issue. Turns out the default arguments passed to Factorio in the package I installed include paths for banlist and whitelist files, but since those files didn't exist it was silently exiting. Didn't show up in the log even when I turned on verbose logging. Removing those ...

I'm getting the same issue. I installed through the factorio-headless-experimental AUR package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/factorio-headless-experimental/), which included a factorio.service to start the game. When I start the service, the game starts for a moment and then closes, before the ...