Why would my play framework say wait for a .sbt lock to be available?

Question

[Sally] $ run

[info] Updating {file:/Users/MyName/Desktop/sally/todolist/}Sally...
Waiting for lock on /Users/MyName/Documents/play-2.1.3/repository/.sbt.ivy.lock to be         


        

Answer 1

I ran the following commands to fix this.

$ ps aux | grep sbt

Get the process ids and kill it.(like below)

$ kill -9 112233 565644

And then run sbt run to start the app.