Activation fails with "DetLock: Attempting to do a non-wait lock on <table_name>" and ORA-0 (4297359)

Activate config results in error " Unable to lock "owner"."table_name"

For example;

sp_ctrl (server_name:port_num)> activate config config_name
   Unable to lock "owner"."table_name".

The *rmp* log (activation log) shows the following error:

06/15 09:36:09 ""owner"."table_name": NEW, Type is T,
06/15 09:36:09 DetLock: Attempting to do a non-wait lock on "owner"."table_name".

The event log shows that the Oracle error ORA-01031 was primarily responsible:

06/15/07 09:36 Process launched: sp_tconf (for o.source_SID) [pid = 5541]
06/15/07 09:36 Error: Unable to lock "owner"."table_name"due to ORA-01031: insufficient privileges. [sp_tconf/5541]
06/15/07 09:36 Config compilation completed: datasrc - o.source_SID; file - config_name
06/15/07 09:36 Bad config file: file - config_name; Unable to lock "owner"."table_name ".
06/15/07 09:36 Process exited sp_tconf  (for o.source_SID) [pid = 5541] - exit(1)