1125379 - WebIDE no longer detects Fennec instances

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(DevTools Graveyard :: WebIDE, defect)

Description

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

A contributor dropped into channel asking about problems with connecting to WebIDE, and in trying to walk him through the steps, I realized I was unable to use WebIDE either.

Followed the steps in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Remote_Debugging/Debugging_Firefox_for_Android_with_WebIDE

Using the old method of "Connect..." worked for me, but not the contributor.

Comment 1

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

Hmm, I just used it with my own local build today.

For you and / or the contributor, what do you see when running:

adb shell cat /proc/net/unix | grep firefox-debugger-socket

Also, please verify that "Remote debugging" is enabled on device, since a local build uses a separate profile.  (I suppose we know this is true already for :liuche at least, since the old Connect page works.)

Comment 2

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

I'm seeing

[numbers] /data/data/org.mozilla.fennec/firefox-debugger-socket

I'm using nightly (38) for both fennec and desktop.

Comment 3

[Prabhjyot Sodhi [:psd]]

Hey!
And I too, am getting the same thing
[numbers] data/data/org.mozilla.fennec_psd/firefox-debugger-socket

When I was using nightly on desktop and my own build for fennec, I wasn't able to connect using both the methods, 
but on using Firefox 35 for desktop, I could use the connect method to connect :)
But I still can't locate my device on WebIde

Than

Comment 4

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

Hmm.  It's quite hard to diagnose these issues without a device that has the problem. :(

Are you trying to use adb manually a lot outside of Firefox?  Perhaps it gets confused somehow.

Does an older release of ADB Helper[1] fix this issue?  Only the 0.7.0 and newer builds will show Android devices, so it's not worth going back further than that.

You can also try stepping through the detection code in the Browser Toolbox's debugger.  We need to find out why the detect[2] function does not find a match for your device.

[1]: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/labs/fxos-simulator/adb-helper/
[2]: https://github.com/mozilla/adbhelper/blob/e962a74e204ccc8db064fee9de064baee401e5d3/scanner.js#L148

Comment 5

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

This now works for me again...I'm not sure what's changed :/