ubuntu-emulator create needs --developer-mode and --password options

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

It's more than that -- I explicitly chose a PIN in the wizard, and also tried to disable/re-enable developer mode (it was on by default) in system-settings, but adb never comes up. It always appears as "offline" in adb devices. My mako is running RTM so I can't test there (as RTM didn't get the new restricted adb yet), but it can be seen in the emulator with "sudo ubuntu-emulator create --arch=i386 --channel=devel-proposed devel-proposed"

the offline state is most likely a udev rule issue the 70 priority we use in the adbd package seems to get overridden by something higher ...
android-tools_4.2.2+git20130218-3ubuntu30 moves the rule to prio 98, that should fix it ... (should be in the next utopic-proposed image (225))

adb is enabled by default in the emulator and after setting a password it is still being seen as offline. Given the emulator is a specific beast and the more I think about it, a default password and --developer-mode make little sense on a "developer" tool.

I would say that we should just add logic in the "developer mode" code to just enable adb by default if the readonly device property is the emulator. Similar logic lives within powerd (for different purposes).

This would gain us the added benefit of not needing yet another hack when the "only enable developer mode after unlock" security feature lands.

Security wise, a host having access to it's emulator instance is of little "security" importance in my mind, more so, we won't need to maintain spread out hacks to support this.

fwiw, adb is enabled by default on the android emulator (build time) but not on actual products.

not sure it still actually is enabled ... the init.rc hacks get automatically removed on container startup and there is an upstart job now that checks for the password prior to starting android-tools-adbd (so that real devices dont end up with the gadget enabled but no daemon listening, which causes a broken state)

i wonder if we need some special treatment here ...

This bug was fixed in the package goget-ubuntu-touch - 0.4+14.10.20140912-0ubuntu1

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goget-ubuntu-touch (0.4+14.10.20140912-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Sergio Schvezov ]
  * ubuntu-emulator: Add a default password for phablet on 'create'.
    (LP: #1365990)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:38:40 +0000

Thanks Sergio! 0000 is indeed not hard to come up with, and it's the one that autopkgtest's adb (i. e. touch) runner already tries :)