emulator won't start, with segmentation fault error

Question

guys. I am new to Android app development and I encountered some issue when I tried to start the emulator. I tried to start the emulator from the Android Virtual Device Manager, and nothing happened. There's no pop-up, no error message. I tried it from the command line and it showed a one-line output, which is "Segmentation fault". I created different virtual devices but they all failed to start with the same error output.
My OS is Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit, and the Android SDK is r20.0.3-linux. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

following edit in the .android/avd/{avd name}.ini file fix this problem for me.

hw.gpu.mode=auto
hw.gpu.enabled = no

Answer 2

try this:

mv tools/lib/libOpenglRender.so tools/lib/libOpenglRender.so.xxx

(taken from Android emulator segmentation fault)

Answer 3

I also seen the same kind of prob. Normally i guess emulator depends on RAM, as it interacts faster. So try swapping your RAM.

For my friend emulator worked after changing RAM.

Answer 4

Try with: emulator -gpu on @youremulatorname