Exception occurred while activating publishing feature

Activate the publishing infrastructure in site collection through stsadm in command line.

stsadm -o activatefeature -name publishing -url http://uday -force

stsadm -o activatefeature -name publishingresources -url http://uday -force

stsadm -o activatefeature -name publishingsite -url http://uday -force

stsadm -o activatefeature –name publishingweb -url http://uday -force

stsadm -o activatefeature –name publsihinglayouts -url http://uday –force

Now verify the site collection feature’s status. You could see the publishing feature enabled. J