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ESX/ESXi 4.1 host fails with a purple diagnostic screen: #PF Exception 14 mentioning DVFilterSocketAcceptTcpip and vmk_accept (2004893)

Symptoms

An ESX or ESXi 4.1 host, with vShield or a third-party vSphere integrated firewall product, fails with a purple diagnostic screen similar to:

@BlueScreen: #PF Exception 14 in world wwww:worldname IP 0xNNNNNNNNN addr 0x0 0xNNNNNNNNN:[0xNNNNNNNNN]vmk_accept@esx:nover+0x1c4 0xNNNNNNNNN:[0xNNNNNNNNN]DVFilterSocketAcceptTcpip@com.vmware.vmkapi:v1_1_0_0+0x57 0xNNNNNNNNN:[0xNNNNNNNNN]DVFilterCommAcceptInt@com.vmware.vmkapi:v1_1_0_0+0x72 0xNNNNNNNNN:[0xNNNNNNNNN]Timer_BHHandler@vmkernel:nover+0x203 0xNNNNNNNNN:[0xNNNNNNNNN]BH_CheckTimers@vmkernel:nover+0x1d 0xNNNNNNNNN:[0xNNNNNNNNN]CpuSchedIdleLoopInt@vmkernel:nover+0x831 0xNNNNNNNNN:[0xNNNNNNNNN]CpuSched_IdleLoop@vmkernel:nover+0x15 0xNNNNNNNNN:[0xNNNNNNNNN]Init_SlaveIdle@vmkernel:nover+0x11e 0xNNNNNNNNN:[0xNNNNNNNNN]SMPSlaveIdle@vmkernel:nover+0x45f

Purpose

This article describes a specific issue. If you experience all of the above symptoms, consult the sections below. If you experience some but not all of these symptoms, your issue is not related to this article. Search for your symptoms, or Open a Support Request.

Resolution

This issue is resolved in ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 2, released on 10/27/2011. For more information, see the release notes:

To resolve this issue, download and install vSphere 4.1 Update 2.

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Update History

11/03/2011 - Added resolution information

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