After the big move to the Ubuntu and connecting G1 via USB -i've got a surpirse - adb devices return nothing.
sudo adb devices found my phone . So i have a rights issues. And i found this post

http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f4/h ... -adb-4482/

If you're developing on Ubuntu Linux, you need to add a rules file:

1. Login as root and create this file: /etc/udev/rules.d/50-android.rules. Edit the file to read (i'm at 8.10):
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666"
2. you will need to restart udev (sudo /etc/init.d/udev reload
) and say hi to your pho

thank you, i was just setting up virtualbox with 8.10 and couldnt get the phone to work with adb

hey no problem

I just wanted to add that I was having a problem where lsusb showed the device, but "adb devices" was blank. I fixed it by running "adb kill-server", then running "adb devices" again, this time making sure I was running it as root. now it shows up!