SBT run stopped working recently with nothing changed in Play services project

[fahadsiddiqui]

steps

Running sbt run on project root directory (Play Framework 2.6.x project) and consuming an API that triggers SparkLauncher to run a job.

problem

I am working on a project where

1. (PROD) I can run the Play Framework services using

   sbt dist
   

   And then running the executable script from target/universal/*.

2. (DEV) But not the development server using

   sbt run\ PORT_NUM
   

The second used to work a few days ago. Now (without any code change) I cannot run the DEV server anymore. It shows the following error if consume the API.

[error] java.io.IOException: Resource temporarily unavailable
[error] 	at java.io.FileInputStream.read0(Native Method)
[error] 	at java.io.FileInputStream.read(FileInputStream.java:207)
[error] 	at jline.internal.NonBlockingInputStream.read(NonBlockingInputStream.java:245)
[error] 	at jline.internal.InputStreamReader.read(InputStreamReader.java:257)
[error] 	at jline.internal.InputStreamReader.read(InputStreamReader.java:194)
[error] 	at jline.console.ConsoleReader.readCharacter(ConsoleReader.java:2151)
[error] 	at jline.console.ConsoleReader.readCharacter(ConsoleReader.java:2141)
[error] 	at play.sbt.PlayConsoleInteractionMode$.waitEOF$1(PlayInteractionMode.scala:62)
[error] 	at play.sbt.PlayConsoleInteractionMode$.$anonfun$waitForKey$2(PlayInteractionMode.scala:73)
[error] 	at play.sbt.PlayConsoleInteractionMode$.$anonfun$doWithoutEcho$1(PlayInteractionMode.scala:80)
[error] 	at play.sbt.PlayConsoleInteractionMode$.$anonfun$doWithoutEcho$1$adapted(PlayInteractionMode.scala:77)
[error] 	at play.sbt.PlayConsoleInteractionMode$.withConsoleReader(PlayInteractionMode.scala:57)
[error] 	at play.sbt.PlayConsoleInteractionMode$.doWithoutEcho(PlayInteractionMode.scala:77)
[error] 	at play.sbt.PlayConsoleInteractionMode$.$anonfun$waitForKey$1(PlayInteractionMode.scala:73)
[error] 	at play.sbt.PlayConsoleInteractionMode$.$anonfun$waitForKey$1$adapted(PlayInteractionMode.scala:60)
[error] 	at play.sbt.PlayConsoleInteractionMode$.withConsoleReader(PlayInteractionMode.scala:57)
[error] 	at play.sbt.PlayConsoleInteractionMode$.waitForKey(PlayInteractionMode.scala:60)
[error] 	at play.sbt.PlayConsoleInteractionMode$.waitForCancel(PlayInteractionMode.scala:83)
[error] 	at play.sbt.run.PlayRun$.$anonfun$playRunTask$3(PlayRun.scala:125)
[error] 	at play.sbt.run.PlayRun$.$anonfun$playRunTask$3$adapted(PlayRun.scala:65)
[error] 	at scala.Function1.$anonfun$compose$1(Function1.scala:44)

Seems a deadlock issue to me, how to proceed further and solve this?

Here is a list of things I tried:

1. Changing the version of installed system SBT
2. Changing the version of SBT in build.properties to latest (1.2.6)

Update 1:
The whole system works on Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS. I am trying to figure out why it isn't working in 18.04 LTS.

Update 2a:
On the machine where it works (it is running on a VM installed in Mac OS Mojave, and the OS is Ubuntu server),

Java version ($ java -version) is

openjdk version "1.8.0_191" 
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_191-8u191-b12-2ubuntu0.16.04.1-b12) 
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.191-b12, mixed mode)

Ubuntu version ($ lsb_release -a) is

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
Release:	16.04
Codename:	xenial

Update 2b:
On the machine where it doesn't work (it is running on desktop system, and the OS is Ubuntu desktop),

Java version ($ java -version) is

openjdk version "1.8.0_191"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_191-8u191-b12-2ubuntu0.16.04.1-b12)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.191-b12, mixed mode)

Ubuntu version ($ lsb_release -a) is

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
Release:	16.04
Codename:	xenial

expectation

Should keep running fine.

notes

I've put the question on Stackoverflow and other users seem to have the same issue also.

In project build.properties
sbt version: 0.13.16

[lkt]

Newest ubuntu kernel vresions 4.15.0-44 and 4.15.0-45. I was able to go around it by booting into 4.15.0-43. More info: https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/ubuntu-18-04-bad-kernel-update.357871/

[eed3si9n]

Thanks for the report, and thanks for the useful info about Ubuntu.

Here are some of the suggested workarounds adapted to sbt:

• sbt -Djline.terminal=none
• Reboot into a kernel that is not 4.15.0-44
• Install a non-broken kernel: apt install linux-image-4.15.0-43-generic, remove the broken one: apt remove linux-image-4.15.0-44-generic, and reboot

[fahadsiddiqui]

Tried installing

apt install linux-image-4.15.0-43-generic

My VM seems broken and gone on Guru Meditation.

Must be something I messed up, I will update you in a while after trying out the steps.

[fahadsiddiqui]

Just confirmed, seems like the issue is with a bad kernel release. Closing this.