adb devices command not working

Question

I\'m running Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit. I have ia32-libs installed along with Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.26.

My problem(s):

1. adb devices >>

Answer 1

restarting the adb server as root worked for me. see:

derek@zoe:~/Downloads$ adb sideload angler-ota-mtc20f-5a1e93e9.zip 
loading: 'angler-ota-mtc20f-5a1e93e9.zip'
error: insufficient permissions for device
derek@zoe:~/Downloads$ adb devices
List of devices attached
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX    no permissions

derek@zoe:~/Downloads$ adb kill-server
derek@zoe:~/Downloads$ sudo adb start-server
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
derek@zoe:~/Downloads$ adb devices
List of devices attached
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX    sideload

Answer 2

I fixed this issue on my debian GNU/Linux system by overiding system rules that way :

mv  /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules

I used contents from files linked at : http://rootzwiki.com/topic/258-udev-rules-for-any-device-no-more-starting-adb-with-sudo/

Answer 3

Please note that IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA tend to start their own adb-server.

Even manually killing the server and running an new instance with sudo won't help here until you make your IDE kill the server itself.