Android Studio AVD error launching

Question

I have a Nexus 6P API23 emulator downloaded on my Ubuntu 15.10 PC. When I try to launch it, it fails and a dialog box pops up and says:

(AVD config: Nexus 6P API 23

Answer 1

My case: I work with Debian Jessie and Android Studio 2.2.3. My graphic card is an ATI Radeon HD 6850 by Sapphire.

The emulator says that there is a problem loading the graphic driver ("libGL error: unable to load driver: r600_dri.so"). As it is explained here, it seems that Google packaged with Android Studio an old version of one library (libstdc++.so.6), and the emulator fails when it tries to use the graphic card.

Solution? Very easy: to use the system libraries instead of the packaged in Android Studio. How? Adding "-use-system-libs" at the end of the command. So:

./emulator -avd EMULATOR_NAME -netspeed full -netdelay none -use-system-libs

The definitive solution (if you don't want to use the terminal) is to set the ANDROID_EMULATOR_USE_SYSTEM_LIBS environment variable to 1 for your user/system. With this change, when you run the emulator within Android Studio, it will also load the system libraries instead of the packaged.

PS - The easiest way I found to set the environment variable, it's to modify the script that launch the Android Studio (studio.sh, in my case it is inside /opt/android-stuido/bin), and add at the begining this:

export ANDROID_EMULATOR_USE_SYSTEM_LIBS=1

UPDATE December 2017: I had the same problem with Debian Stretch and Android Studio 3.0.1 (same graphic card). The same solution works for me.