Feature activation in site definition (onet.xml) throws an error while searching for a list - "Value does not fall within the expected range"

Prateesh Nair asked:

Hi,

I am trying to create a site definition using webtemp*.xml and onet.xml. I am creating all my list instances through onet.xml only. I have a feature which I am using to manipulate a list in this site. I have this feature activated through the <sitefeatures> element in onet.xml. But when I try to create a site using this definition, everything works fine except the feature activation code. The activation code throws me an error - "Value does not fall within the expected range". On further investigating, I found that this is because the list instances are created only after the Site-scoped features and Web-scoped Features are activated and hence in my feature code when I am trying to fetch a particular list, I encounter this error. Could anyone help me out on this. I want the feature to be activated and code to be executed once the site is created through this definition.

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