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remove CLI installation section about deactivating drivers_autoprobe #787

Closed pieqq closed 8 months ago

pieqq commented 8 months ago

Several people reported that setting /sys/bus/usb/drivers_autoprobe to 0 as recommended in the installation guide resulted in the following step (fastboot flashing unlock) not working.

The workaround, as explained on the forum[1], is to ignore this section. Therefore, this commit removes it from the installation guide.

[1] https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/3419-fastboot-waiting-for-device

thestinger commented 8 months ago

This section is in both the web and CLI guides, and it's not recommended. It's provided as a workaround for broken operating systems.

pieqq commented 8 months ago

I had missed the section in the Web documentation, sorry!

Maybe instead of removing it entirely, a note could be added to let people try without setting it to 0 first?

thestinger commented 8 months ago

That makes sense. It's only there as a possible workaround. I'm not sure if removing it makes sense. The issue it was added to work around may be fixed in distributions with up-to-date software but Debian stable exists.

pieqq commented 8 months ago

By any chance, do you know what GNOME bug we are referring to? This way we can make it more specific what versions of GNOME users should run the workaround commands.