local rails engine running server but not console

Question

An application can start the Thin web server

rails s

However, launching the console

rails c

hangs and never returns to a prompt.

Obviously, I need it to run!
note 1: I believe this is a consequence of an external disk that houses the application, that lost its connection to the main computer
note 2: I had read incidentally that the spring gem has some un-robust behaviours. Could this be a motive?

Answer 1

run following command & it should be fix

spring stop