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

On my windows machine, I managed to solve the above issue by killing the processes that use that lock file.

Use the following official tool from Microsoft to search for the processes that are using the lock file.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer