(This is more for the springfield admins..)

The SOFA code is disabled by default because it is extremely buggy, and not tested *AT ALL* for NGS. We plan on removing it from the game entirely, so if you choose to run with it, its definitely a portion of the code you will need to maintain.

To the player:

There is not much you can do. You pretty much have to wait until that SQL lock on the sessions table clears. The admin's have a variety of ways to make that happen (restart mysql, etc).