On 6 Aug 2014, at 20:32, Asa Dotzler <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 8/6/14, 9:15 AM, Josh Aas wrote:
>> I got a Flame phone and wanted to update it to 2.0 nightly so I could
>> test/dogfood. Last week I couldn't figure out how to do that via the
>> Flame home page, but someone has since added instructions. Thanks to
>> whoever did that!
>> 
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developer_phone_guide/Flame
>> 
>> One issue with the instructions, though, at least on OS X - they only
>> really work if both flash steps are run as root (sudo). Flashing the
>> base doesn't require root, but the flash to 2.0 nightly requires the adb
>> daemon to be running as root, and if you didn't flash the base as root
>> adb will not be running as root. You'll need to do "adb kill-server",
>> which most people won't know how to do. If you didn't run the base flash
>> as root, and you figured out how to kill the adb server, you then need
>> to run the second flash as root to get adb to start as root. We should
>> either recommend that people run the flash commands as root (prefix
>> "sudo"), or explain how to get adb running as root first.
>> 
>> Other than this, the page's information is much better than before.
>> Still could be better organized, though.
> 
> Chris Mills manages this page, with input from me and other Flame team folks.
> 
> I'm glad it's an improvement. I've copied Chris on this in the hopes that he 
> can find a way to incorporate the Mac OS X note into the instructions -- 
> assuming that's as expected and not a bug for us to fix.

Yup, I saw it, and will investigate it and update the page either tonight my 
time, or tomorrow.

cheers!

Chris
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