Eclipse Android Emulator won't launch

Question

I have installed Eclipse 4.2 with Eclipse android plugin(ADT)on ubuntu 11.10. when i launch "Hello World" project as an android application, it simply wont launch!

ps -x > log.txt after launching the emulator, output:

1000      7221 20.0  0.6  16884  6908 ?        D    18:11   0:00 /home/tutakhail/android-sdks/tools/emulator-arm -avd AndroidBrowser -netspeed full -netdelay none

launching the emulator manually from shell, i get the following error, shortly after which the emulator launches but is very slow.

emulator: ERROR: Could not load OpenGLES emulation library: libOpenglRender.so:    cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
emulator: WARNING: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, using software renderer.

Any hints on what could be the issue here? Perhaps related to Ubuntu?

Answer 1

Turns out the solution is to point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the /tools/lib path. Below works for me.

➜ tools file ../tools/lib/libOpenglRender.so ../tools/lib/libOpenglRender.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, not stripped

➜ tools export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/xxxx/devel/android-sdk-linux/tools/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

➜ tools ./emulator-x86 -avd AtomX86 -gpu on -qemu -m 1024 -enable-kvm

emulator: emulator window was out of view and was recentered ....

Answer 2

I guess its a bug affecting the latest versions of the ADTs perhaps has something to do with NVIDIA GPUs drivers. The issue is discussed here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/adt-dev/nlA07toW1fc

The work around that I have found which at least lets me execute my applications till a permanent solution is released, is that by first launching the emulator from shell even if it throws the error. After which i right-click and run my projects as an "Android application". The emulator does surprisingly execute them!

Answer 3

I've got similar error, and I guess this error caused by missing libGL.so.

Install package libgl1-mesa-dev;

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev

Source

Answer 4

Try running emulator from command line first to see if everything goes well. You may need to add options like:

-no-audio 
-gpu off

I've seen audio preventing emulator to start on some Ubuntu configurations.

Answer 5

I tried to use the Intel Hardware Acceleration in Ubuntu 12.04 for running emulators using KVM package. However I was getting the error, " Failed to start RenderThread ". Installing the package libgl1-mesa-dev and reducing the Device RAM Size to 512 solved my problem. The emulator now is indeed atleast 10X faster. I hope this would help someone trying to emulate android devices in Ubuntu using Intel processor that supports Virtualizattion Technology.

Answer 6

SO i guess maybe you haven't installed everything properly.

You should check if you followed the steps as shown in : http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Android-on-Ubuntu-Linux-With-Eclipse-Ide

After installing it properly and setting up the PATH environment variables . Also another thing you can do is try deleting the AVD emulator and creating a new one and then try again .

Also i found your question over here at : https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/adt-dev/nlA07toW1fc

THe question you asked is not really specific so just try following the steps.

Answer 7

If using eclipse, you have to add in Project-Properties in the "Java Build Path" -> Libraries -> Android 4.4 -> "Native library location" the path to sdk/tools/lib directory. For me this is "install-dir-of-sdk"/sdk/tools/lib"

Answer 8

以下命令使我的生活遇到了同样的问题

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev

Answer 9

Configure ANDROID_HOME

export ANDROID_HOME=//android-sdk-macosx
export PATH=${PATH}:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/emulator/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

To run ARM version

cd $ANDROID_HOME/emulator/
./emulator64-arm -avd Nexus_5X_ARM_22 -no-audio -gpu off

Answer 10

我通过安装32位libGL在我的Red Hat Linux 64位上解决了这个问题（它应该位于/ usr / lib /中）

 sudo yum install mesa-libGL.i686

Answer 11

libOpenglRender.so and other necessary files are present, indeed, in tools/lib64, while avd tries to find them in tools/lib Making symbolic links to the files and dirs helped (in my case)

ln -s ../lib64/qt qt
ln -s ../lib64/gles_mesa gles_mesa
ln -s ../lib64/libstdc++ libstdc++
ln -s ../lib64/lib64GLES_V2_translator.so lib64GLES_V2_translator.so
ln -s ../lib64/lib64emugl_test_shared_library.so lib64emugl_test_shared_library.so
ln -s ../lib64/lib64OpenglRender.so lib64OpenglRender.so
ln -s ../lib64/lib64GLES_CM_translator.so lib64GLES_CM_translator.so
ln -s ../lib64/lib64EGL_translator.so lib64EGL_translator.so

(seems to be bug in original config, as that happens with fresh install of the studio/sdk)