Android emulator - unable to load driver

Question

Running on Ubuntu, I\'m getting this error:

Cannot launch AVD in emulator.
Output:
libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointe         


        

Answer 1

Had the same issue and my fix was to set the following env variable:

export ANDROID_EMULATOR_USE_SYSTEM_LIBS=1

In my case I put it in ~/.bashrc. With that being sent I start emulator as usual, i.e. from command line:

$ emulator -avd Nexus_4_API_23

Looks like it's a common well-known problem tracked in Android bug tracker: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=197254