Error: [$rootScope:inprog] http://errors.angularjs.org/1.3.2/$rootScope/inprog?p0=%24digest

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• When you use the Chrome 57 to login to the Web Interface of the ESXi hosts, the embedded host client reports the error stack similar to:

Cause: Error: [$rootScope:inprog] http://errors.angularjs.org/1.3.2/$rootScope/inprog?p0=%24digest
Version: 1.8.0
Build: 4516221

• ESXi: 6.5.0

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36

• Host client throws Unhandled exception:

Exception stack:

Error: [$rootScope:inprog] http://errors.angularjs.org/1.3.2/$rootScope/inprog?p0=%24digest
at https://esx-01.example.com/ui/scripts/main.js:263:20611
at l (https://esx-01.example.com/ui/scripts/main.js:265:12567)
at k.$apply (https://esx-01.example.com/ui/scripts/main.js:265:16690)
at HTMLInputElement.<anonymous> (https://esx-01.example.com/ui/scripts/main.js:267:828)
at HTMLInputElement.dispatch (https://esx-01.example.com/ui/scripts/main.js:262:14464)
at HTMLInputElement.r.handle (https://esx-01.example.com/ui/scripts/main.js:262:11251)
at prop (https://esx-01.example.com/ui/scripts/main.js:263:3018)
at n.access (https://esx-01.example.com/ui/scripts/main.js:262:6702)
at n.fn.init.prop (https://esx-01.example.com/ui/scripts/main.js:263:2642)
at V.$set (https://esx-01.example.com/ui/scripts/main.js:264:21408)

 

Note: The preceding log excerpts are only examples. Date, time, and environmental variables may vary depending on your environment.

Environment

• VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5
• VMware vSphere ESXi 6.x

Resolution

This is a known issue affecting ESXi 5.5 and 6.x.

This issue is resolved in VMware ESXi 6.0 Patch Release 5.

The issue is resolved in Host Client 1.19.0 and later.

Workaround:

To workaround this issue, press the [ESC] Key which will clear the error.

Alternatively, you can also work around this issue by using a different web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox.