Error: Could not access the Package Manager. Is the system running? - At Android Studio

Question

I installed android studio and tried to run easy projects.

But I caught strange error message:

Waiting for device.
/usr/local/idea/android-studio/sdk         


        

Answer 1

I had this issue, but I found that simply killing the emulator and restarting it worked. There seems to be some sort of race condition where the emulator has not initialized before Android Studio tries to launch the apk and so you get the package error.