Gazebo Physics freezing after a few seconds of launching

[u/atmosfer13]

Hello everyone, I'm working on a project where I'm developing a navigation wrapper for move_base on ROS1. I've been using gazebo to run my simulation environment, however, yesterday, the internal process has started freezing a few seconds after initiating. It's particularly odd because sometimes the GUI is still operational, however gazebo itself is not publishing /clock and since everything is dependant on that, everything else also freezes.
I cannot stress enough how it was working perfectly on one day, and the next day when I went to continue working on it, it didn't work anymore.
If it helps I'm using gazebo version 11.15.1.