Publish fails with java.lang.IllegalStateException accessing various tables (Doc ID 1439154.1)

Symptoms

Publishing fails, and logs show java.lang.IllegalStateException whilst accessing various tables, e.g:

[2009-03-20 10:56:10.884][CS.SESSION][ERROR] Exception checking security for table AssetType
java.lang.IllegalStateException:
Session Object Internals:
id : zpXLd2N0QZ_ADr4SFWEFoLA
hashCode : 2070969200
create time : Fri Mar 20 10:53:51 GMT 2009
last access : Fri Mar 20 10:53:51 GMT 2009
max inactive interval : 3600000
user name : anonymous
valid session : false
new session : true
overflowed : false
app name : default_host/cs
non-serializable app specific session data : null
serializable app specific session data : {}
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.httpsession.SessionData.getValueGuts(SessionData.java:839)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.httpsession.SessionData.getValue(SessionData.java:1243)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.httpsession.SessionData.getAttribute(SessionData.java:1129)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.httpsession.HttpSessionFacade.getAttribute(HttpSessionFacade.java:120)
at COM.FutureTense.Servlet.ServletRequest.getSessionAttribute(DashoA19*..)

Cause

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