Android Studio emulator: ERROR: detected a hanging thread QEMU2 main loop

Question

I use Android Studio 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 16.04.

Yesterday, Android Studio popped up a message saying that there\'s an update available, and I always click those. It the

Answer 1

This is what worked for me:

I have gone to Tools->AVD Manager->Edit(The particular emulator)>Show Advanced Settings

Then in the Emulated Performance section i had the Quick Boot selected, which i changed to Cold Boot and everything started working fine.

Hope this helps.