I haven't seen it, but I think I remember reading about it. I believe
that errors can be caused by administrative clients, or client nodes
accessing the server during export-import functions can create errors,
and that access should be locked during these functions.

Elvin Peterson wrote:
>
> While doing an Import I received the following messages:
>
>         ANR9999D IMUTIL(2555): Lock acquisition (ixLock) failed
>           for Inventory node 76.
>         ANR0530W Transaction failed for session 94 for node
>           EPETERSO (server) - internal server error detected.
>         ANR0690E IMPORT NODE: Transaction failure - server aborted
>           the transaction (1).
>         ANR0728E IMPORT NODE: Processing terminated abnormally -
>           internal error.
>
> Has anyone seen something like this before?  I tried putting a lock on
> the node that I was doing the import on, and it didn't have an impact.
>
> Elvin Peterson
> epeterso AT scj DOT com
> 414-260-3366