Root transaction wanted to commit, but transaction aborted

Our client is getting error when trying to do bulk insert into one of the tables. Oracle version is 10g. The error says Root transaction wanted to commit, but transaction aborted. Client is using Windows server 2003 service pack 2.
This error is not appearing when the application is accessed from Windows server 2003 service pack 1. All other application settings are similar.
We have a module in our project, which reads data from XML file and merges the data into the database. We have a portal application developed in ASP.NET from where, we merge the data into oracle database.
When the data to be merged is very huge, we get this message. 'The root transaction wanted to commit, but transaction aborted'.
But this problem is very intermittent. It happens only when there is huge amount of data to be inserted to one table.
As i have mentioned in my post, we use Windows server 2003 operation system with service pack 2. This error does not come when we do the same operation with service pack 1.
So is it OS dependent?
Edited by: user8662578 on Jul 29, 2009 8:34 PM

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