I see. I found this is an issue specific to the Debian version of adb. The android-tools-adb package comes with a patch applied to change the default server transport to use unix domain socket which is not compatible with adbhelper.
I think this could be mentioned on MDN or adbhelper's help page. Alexandre poirot <[email protected]> writes: > adbhelper is supposed to work fine if you already have a adb server up and > running. > But it has to be adb version 31 or more as we are using recent adb commands > that are only available in recent versions of adb. > If you don't have 31+ version, adbhelper is going to kill your local adb > server and launch its own (version 31). > Otherwise, adbhelper will just connect to your local adb server. > > So if both are really 1.0.31, it looks like a bug... > > > 2015-10-20 5:48 GMT+02:00 Kan-Ru Chen (陳侃如) <[email protected]>: > >> Are they supposed to work together? On my desktop (Debian GNU/Linux 8 >> package android-tools-adb) they both report version 1.0.31 but every >> time I want to use WebIDE I have to kill the original adb server or kill >> the WebIDE one in order to use adb shell. >> >> Kanru >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-fxos mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >> _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos

