adb forward not working

Question

adb port forwarding is not working for me and your insight is appreciated. The following command is what I am trying

./adb forward tcp:5985 tcp:5984"

I don't see any errors(in logcat) but it just fails silently. When I try the following command curl localhost:5985 after that, I get "curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer"

When I try curl localhost:5984, I do see a message as I have a process running on port 5984 (Couchbase server).

I don't think this is an issue with adb itself as all other adb commands are working. Amongst other things I have tried are a) kill-server followed by start-server (with sudo mode as well) b) Restarting my machine.

Needless to say, neither of these have worked. I am working on x64 Ubuntu 11.10.

Please note that I am working with the emulator and my emulator device is running. I do see other messages in logcat just not this one.

Thanks

-Venu

Answer 1

Have you read this document from Google? https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/debugging

It explains that you have to first make sure you can see your device with

adb devices

Then in Chrome on your Android device, go to Open Settings > Advanced > Developer tools and check the Enable USB Web debugging option as shown here:

Then enter the follow command:

adb forward tcp:9222 localabstract:chrome_devtools_remote

And go to this URL in Chrome on your desktop:

localhost:9222

Does that work?