#1147213 gvfs-daemons: asyncio ERROR(pid 6859): Exception in callback MulticastHandler.read_socket()

Package:
gvfs-daemons
Source:
gvfs-daemons
Description:
userspace virtual filesystem - servers
Submitter:
Francesco Potortì
Date:
2026-09-09 13:05:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1147213#5
Date:
2026-09-09 13:02:14 UTC
From:
To:
I got this in the syslog.  It was a one-off issue, with apparently no consequence, that's why I
set severity to minor.  I was working on my server / desktop box as usual, maybe using Qgis but
I am not sure.

gvfsd[6859]: 2026-09-08 05:10:57,473:asyncio ERROR(pid 6859): Exception in callback MulticastHandler.read_socket()
gvfsd[6859]: handle: <Handle MulticastHandler.read_socket()>
gvfsd[6859]: Traceback (most recent call last):
gvfsd[6859]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.14/asyncio/events.py", line 94, in _run
gvfsd[6859]:     self._context.run(self._callback, *self._args)
gvfsd[6859]:     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
gvfsd[6859]:   File "/usr/bin/wsdd", line 330, in read_socket
gvfsd[6859]:     handler.handle_packet(msg.decode('utf-8'), address)
gvfsd[6859]:     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
gvfsd[6859]:   File "/usr/bin/wsdd", line 742, in handle_packet
gvfsd[6859]:     self.handle_message(msg, src)
gvfsd[6859]:     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^
gvfsd[6859]:   File "/usr/bin/wsdd", line 534, in handle_message
gvfsd[6859]:     retval = handler(header, body)
gvfsd[6859]:   File "/usr/bin/wsdd", line 769, in handle_hello
gvfsd[6859]:     self.perform_metadata_exchange(endpoint, xaddr)
gvfsd[6859]:     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
gvfsd[6859]:   File "/usr/bin/wsdd", line 857, in perform_metadata_exchange
gvfsd[6859]:     self.handle_metadata(stream.read(), endpoint, xaddr)
gvfsd[6859]:     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
gvfsd[6859]:   File "/usr/bin/wsdd", line 866, in handle_metadata
gvfsd[6859]:     device_uuid = str(uuid.UUID(endpoint))
gvfsd[6859]:                       ~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^
gvfsd[6859]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.14/uuid.py", line 219, in __init__
gvfsd[6859]:     raise ValueError('badly formed hexadecimal UUID string')
gvfsd[6859]: ValueError: badly formed hexadecimal UUID string