can't open VM ... failed to lock the file

The VM crashed so I had to power it down.  I even restarted the ESX but getting the above message.  When I try to turn on the host it doesn't let me power it on to the original server.

when i tried to kill the process below it just shows up again.

# ps -ef | grep "cwcbes01"

root      3536  3142  0 15:00 pts/0    00:00:00 grep cwcbes01