Ubuntu - Error: Failed to create the SD card

Question

I see a lot of posts about writing to the SD card, but I believe my problem is different. I am unable to create the SD card during the process of building an AVD.

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Answer 1

I had a different problem using 32bit Ubuntu. When i tried to run mksdcard by hand, I was getting a file not found error.

The problem was open-jre/jdk. I installed oracle java and the problem was fixed. Unfortunately you can no longer install oracle java through apt/synaptic and have to jump through some extra hoops:

https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6