Cannot clean up locked type when importing application

Question

I am trying to import an application from a 16.1 environment to a 16.2 environment. But I am getting an error about locked CDT. "A data type could not be updated because it or one of its dependents is currently being updated somewhere else in the system. Please try again later. Details: Invalid Type: Type Error: Cannot clean up locked type - {urn:cdt:isg}ISG_REIMBURSABLE_CHARGE_DETAILS" Is there a known problem and workaround for exporting and importing from 16.1 to 16.2 version? Thanks Nikhil 
 
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Zubair Suri · Accepted Answer

The data type and its dependent data types get locked when you update a precedent data type. For some unrelated reason when your connection to the app server was dropped, the data type was left in a locked state. You do not see locked data types on the UI. The lock expires after one hour if you try to update that data type again. But you mentioned that it was still reporting the locked error message even after 2 hours of seeing the error message. We wanted to look at the data type dependency tree to understand if some other dependent data type was causing it to lock again or if there is any other problem. Checkpointing does not change the locked state of data types.