"Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No such file or directory (g-io-error-quark, 1)" One issue that may cause this to arise is if you managed to break your /etc/fstab We had an engineer add a line with the intended options of "nfsvers=3" but instead added "-onfsvers=3" and it broke the system fairly catastrophically.
WARNING!!!! When you lock the bootloader.. it erases the damn device! Ugh... Anyhow.... To enable USB stuff.. Go to System | Build... tap build 7 times, click back... Developer options.. and somewhere in there you can unlock the bootloader and enable USB # adb reboot bootloader -- The device will reboot... then... # fastboot flashing lock