1780391 - Enable USB Debugging is not working on M1 mac

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: about:debugging, defect, P2)

Description

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

STRs:

• on a M1 mac, with a fresh profile
• open about:debugging#/setup
• click "Enable USB Devices"

Expected:
USB should be enabled in the sidebar

Actual:
USB remains disabled

As a workaround you can install adb on the side and start the daemon manually, the existing adb process will then be reused by about:debugging. But we should still fix this. I imagine the version of ADB we ship with the extension is not compatible with M1 macs.

Comment 1

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Error logs show Error: ADB Process didn't start from https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/c11f54459452dd2f9ab2f9bec4ae03127897d256/devtools/client/shared/remote-debugging/adb/adb-process.js#124

The actual error is Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIProcess.runAsync] from process.runAsync

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:jdescottes, could you have a look please?

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Comment 4

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Anyone blocked by this, you can install adb separately and run adb start-server. about:debugging should be able to reuse your currently installed adb.