USB: usb_device_handle_win.cc:1020 Failed to read descriptor from node connection error with ChromeDriver v87 / Chrome v87 using Selenium on Windows10

Solution 1:

My apologies for the log spam. If you aren't having issues connecting to a device with WebUSB you can ignore these warnings. They are triggered by Chrome attempting to read properties of USB devices that are currently suspended.

Solution 2:

After going through quite a few discussions, documentations and Chromium issues here are the details related to the surfacing of the log message:

[9848:10684:1201/013233.169:ERROR:device_event_log_impl.cc(211)] [01:32:33.170] USB: usb_device_handle_win.cc:1020 Failed to read descriptor from node connection: A device attached to the system is not functioning. (0x1F)

Details

It all started with the reporting of chromium issue Remove WebUSB's dependency on libusb on Windows as:

For Linux (probably Mac as well), both WebUSB notification and communication works correctly (after allowing user access to the device in udev rules).
For Windows, it seems that libusb only works with a non-standard WinUsb driver (https://github.com/libusb/libusb/issues/255).

When the hardware is inserted and the VID/PID is unknown to the system, windows 10 correctly loads it's CDC driver for the CDC part and the WinUSB driver (version 10) for the WebUSB part (no red flags). However, it seems that chrome never finds the device until I manually force an older WinUSB driver (version 6 - probably modified also) on the interface.

The solution was implemented in a step-wise manner as follows:

Start supporting some transfers in the new Windows USB backend
Fix bulk/interrupt transfers in the new Windows USB backend
[usb] Read BOS descriptors from the hub driver on Windows
[usb] Collect all composite devices paths during enumeration on Windows
[usb] Remove out parameters in UsbServiceWin helper functions
[usb] Support composite devices in the new Windows backend
[usb] Detect USB functions as Windows enumerates them
[usb] Support composite devices with multiple functions
[usb] Hold interface requests until Windows enumerates functions
[usb] Add direction parameter to ClearHalt
[usb] Count references to a WINUSB_INTERFACE_HANDLE
[usb] Implement blocking operations in the Windows backend

These changes ensured that the new backend was ready to be tested and was available through Chrome Canary and chrome-dev-channel which you can access manually through:

chrome://flags#enable-new-usb-backend

More change requests were submitted as follows:

[usb] Mark calls to SetupDiGetDeviceProperty as potentially blocking: According to hang reports this function performs an RPC call which may take some time to complete. Mark calls with a base::ScopedBlockingCall so that the thread pool knows this task may be busy for a while.
variations: Enable NewUsbBackend in field trial testing config: This flag was experimental as beta-channel uses this change configuration as the default for testing.

As the experimental launch of the new backend appeared to be stable, finally these configuration was enabled by default so that the chanege rolls out to all users of Chrome 87 through usb: Enable new Windows USB backend by default. Revision / Commit

The idea was once this configuration becomes the default for a few milestones, Chromium Team will start removing the Windows-specific code from the old back-end and remove the flag.

Road Ahead

Chromium Team have already merged the revision/commit to Extend new-usb-backend flag expiration within Chrome v90 which will be available soon.

Update

As per @ReillyGrant's [Committer, WebDriver for Google Chrome] comment :

..." it would be good to reduce the log level for these messages so they don't appear on the console by default but we haven't landed code to do that yet"...

References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

Failed to read descriptor from node connection: A device attached to the system is not functioning error using ChromeDriver Selenium on Windows OS
Failed to read descriptor from node connection: A device attached to the system is not functioning error using ChromeDriver Chrome through Selenium

Solution 3:

However these log messages can be supressed to appear on the console through a hack adding through add_experimental_option() as follows:

options.add_experimental_option('excludeSwitches', ['enable-logging'])

Code Block:

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
# to supress the error messages/logs
options.add_experimental_option('excludeSwitches', ['enable-logging'])
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://www.google.com/')