FAQ
"...What does this message really mean?..."
Answer
It's benign and nothing to worry about.
All it's indicating are the number of locations where ASE Civil asked Civil 3D to provide a surface elevation, but not data was given.
Considering there can be about a couple thousand sample locations on a long road with multiple components, "124" errors may actually be a very small percentage of the total number of sample elevations used to generate the existing ground profile linework.