Steps to reproduce

1. Go to author instance and publish the home page https://demoauthor.magnolia-cms.com/.magnolia/admincentral#app:pages-app:browser;/travel::
2. After publishing process is started directly request the home page on Public instance https://demopublic.magnolia-cms.com/travel?test=1 
3. Bypassing the cache by login to the public instance https://demopublic.magnolia-cms.com/.magnolia/admincentral

Expected results

The published content will be displayed on the public home page.

Actual results

• Publishing fails (node locked) with following stacktrace in the logs of the public instance

  ERROR info.magnolia.publishing.receiver.operation.jcr.AbstractJcrReceiveOperation 13.08.2021 11:31:49 -- Publishing failed, please contact your system administrator to help you resolve the issue.
  info.magnolia.publishing.operation.ReceiveOperation$OperationExecutionException: Publishing failed, please contact your system administrator to help you resolve the issue.
  	at info.magnolia.publishing.receiver.operation.jcr.JcrPublicationOperation.update(JcrPublicationOperation.java:188) ~[magnolia-publishing-receiver-1.3.jar:?]
  	at info.magnolia.publishing.transactional.receiver.operation.jcr.JcrTransactionPublicationOperation.doExecute(JcrTransactionPublicationOperation.java:120) ~[magnolia-publishing-transactional-receiver-1.1.1.jar:?]
  	at info.magnolia.publishing.transactional.receiver.operation.jcr.JcrTransactionPublicationOperation.doExecute(JcrTransactionPublicationOperation.java:61) ~[magnolia-publishing-transactional-receiver-1.1.1.jar:?]
  	at info.magnolia.publishing.receiver.operation.jcr.AbstractJcrReceiveOperation.execute(AbstractJcrReceiveOperation.java:161) [magnolia-publishing-receiver-1.3.jar:?]
  	at info.magnolia.publishing.transactional.receiver.operation.jcr.JcrTransactionPublicationOperation.execute(JcrTransactionPublicationOperation.java:99) [magnolia-publishing-transactional-receiver-1.1.1.jar:?]
  	at info.magnolia.publishing.dispatcher.AbstractDispatcher.dispatch(AbstractDispatcher.java:105) [magnolia-publishing-core-1.3.jar:?]
  	at info.magnolia.publishing.transactional.receiver.dispatcher.TransactionalHeadersDispatcher.dispatch(TransactionalHeadersDispatcher.java:57) [magnolia-publishing-transactional-receiver-1.1.1.jar:?]
  	at info.magnolia.publishing.transactional.receiver.dispatcher.TransactionalHeadersDispatcher.dispatch(TransactionalHeadersDispatcher.java:38) [magnolia-publishing-transactional-receiver-1.1.1.jar:?]
  	at info.magnolia.publishing.receiver.filter.PublicationFilter.doFilter(PublicationFilter.java:61) [magnolia-publishing-receiver-1.3.jar:?]
  	at info.magnolia.cms.filters.AbstractMgnlFilter.doFilter(AbstractMgnlFilter.java:85) [magnolia-core-6.2.11.jar:?]
  ...
  	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834) [?:?]
  Caused by: javax.jcr.lock.LockException: Node locked.
  	at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.lock.LockManagerImpl.checkLock(LockManagerImpl.java:694) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.20.0.jar:2.20.0]
  	at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.lock.LockManagerImpl.checkLock(LockManagerImpl.java:670) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.20.0.jar:2.20.0]
  	at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.lock.LockManagerImpl.checkLock(LockManagerImpl.java:655) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.20.0.jar:2.20.0]
  	at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.lock.XALockManager.checkLock(XALockManager.java:174) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.20.0.jar:2.20.0]
  	at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemValidator.checkLock(ItemValidator.java:367) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.20.0.jar:2.20.0]
  	at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemValidator.checkCondition(ItemValidator.java:288) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.20.0.jar:2.20.0]
  	at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemValidator.checkModify(ItemValidator.java:248) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.20.0.jar:2.20.0]
  	at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemRemoveOperation.perform(ItemRemoveOperation.java:70) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.20.0.jar:2.20.0]
  	at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.session.SessionState.perform(SessionState.java:216) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.20.0.jar:2.20.0]
  	at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemImpl.perform(ItemImpl.java:91) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.20.0.jar:2.20.0]
  	at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.ItemImpl.remove(ItemImpl.java:322) ~[jackrabbit-core-2.20.0.jar:2.20.0]
  	at info.magnolia.jcr.wrapper.DelegatePropertyWrapper.remove(DelegatePropertyWrapper.java:302) ~[magnolia-core-6.2.11.jar:?]
  	at info.magnolia.jcr.wrapper.DelegatePropertyWrapper.remove(DelegatePropertyWrapper.java:302) ~[magnolia-core-6.2.11.jar:?]
  	... 60 more
  

• Content on public home page dissapear
  
• Reason is the resetted empty area node
  

Workaround

• Republish until no conflicts on public instance happens.