Do you think that you could copy-paste your email (as is) in a new bug report at b.android.com so that we don't lose track of it?
Thanks, JBQ On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:27 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've finally figured out what was going wrong with the udev stuff on > Fedora Core 6 > setting up the USB device for adb. The advice for Ubuntu may be correct, but > it > doesn't work out of the box with Fedora Core 6 and probably higher. The reason > is because Fedora Core 6 has a rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules > for all new > USB devices which sets modes, etc. The advice for Ubuntu is to make a > file called > 50-android.rules and place it in the rules directory. Note that just > like init(1), udev > scans the rules directory in sorted order which means that 50-android > is executed > *before* 50-udev. > > The net effect here is that 50-udev sets the permissions on the new device > back > to 0644 which is to say, no write permission for userland adb and the > subsequent > non-love (running adb's server as root ought to work). Here's the simple fix: > > 1) create a file to 51-android.rules in rules.d > 2) put this incantation in it: > > SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device",SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4",SYMLINK+="android_adb",MODE="0666" > > 3) as root after you've created the file, kick udev with: udevcontrol > reload_rules > 4) plug in the device and enjoy! > > It would be *really* nice if this or something like it found its way > back into the > documentation ::wink wink:: In fact, the advice for Ubuntu Dapper is the > exact same rule as Fedora, so most likely just changing the docs to create > 51-android will work for both Fedora and Ubuntu Dapper. > > Mike > > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
