Error occurred in deployment step ‘Activate Features’

Problem
An error related to feature activation is generated when deploying a sharepoint wsp package using visual studio 2010’s default deployment configuration -

Error occurred in deployment step ‘Activate Features’

Workaround 1
Use the “No Activation” deployment configuration and use Post-deployment command-line operations to manually activate your features since the retraction process will deactivate your features regardless.

Workaround 2
Deploy using default configuration until you see error message. Then manually Enable/Disable problem features and then RE-DEPLOY using default configuration-
1) Enable-SPFeature -identity "FeatureTitle" -Url http://localhost
2) Disable-SPFeature -identity "FeatureTitle" -Url http://localhost