SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure:
The error is:
Error
Column Limit Exceeded.
There are too many columns of the specified data type. Please delete some other columns first. Note that some column types like numbers and currency use the same data type.
SOLUTION:
The problem was that sharepoint had somehow multiplied the fields "JobId", "ItemUrl" and "ItemType" so that it was not possible to add those fields in the process of activating the publishing feature. The Solution for me was to delete all those fields from the quick deploy items list since you cannot delete the list itself by default.
http://qaportal/Quick%20Deploy%20Items/AllItems.aspx
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