Android AVD can only be launched ONCE

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...and every subsequent attempt at launching after that results in a crash. Once any AVD is launched and quit, it can never be launched successfully again. I've tried ARM and Intel ABIs, with and without snapshots. Nothing seems to make a difference.

I can't even delete that AVD from the AVD Manager's list; it claims it's "currently running in an emulator and can't be deleted", which is it not (there's no emulator process running). I have to manually delete the .avd files from ~/.android/avd/, and then create an entirely new AVD. I see no other process than the Android Studio app running (at least nothing that looks remotely related), but when I quit it, it asks me if I want to "disconnect from the process 'app'" (it asks multiple times, actually), even though Activity Monitor shows no process named "app". The emulator continues to crash after quitting and restarting Android Studio, as well as the machine itself.

None of the other AVD-related posts on SO seem to be relevant.

I'm running the latest version of Android Studio (just updated to 0.8.2 via the built-in updater), on the latest version of OS X Mavericks. Here's the interesting part of the stack trace of the crash:

Process:         emulator64-arm [10831]
Path:            /Users/USER/*/Android Studio.app/sdk/tools/emulator64-arm
Identifier:      emulator64-arm
Version:         ???
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  studio [3462]
Responsible:     studio [3462]
User ID:         501

Date/Time:       2014-07-09 14:17:37.966 -0600
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.9.4 (13E28)
Report Version:  11
Anonymous UUID:  B18B64F8-4A66-F624-243B-2AE2C192F57D

Sleep/Wake UUID: EE9F3B06-E894-4CA3-A022-8D4FC325A1BC

Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000

VM Regions Near 0:
--> 
    __TEXT                 000000010b732000-000000010b966000 [ 2256K] r-x/rwx SM=COW  /Users/USER/*/Android Studio.app/sdk/tools/emulator64-arm

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   emulator64-arm                  0x000000010b8ae18a 0x10b732000 + 1556874
1   com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff8f457321 __67-[NSWindow _updateSettingsSendingScreenChangeNotificationIfNeeded:]_block_invoke + 237
2   com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff8f4571e8 NSPerformWithScreenUpdatesDisabled + 65
3   com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff8f457197 -[NSWindow _updateSettingsSendingScreenChangeNotificationIfNeeded:] + 197
4   com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff8f44f491 -[NSWindow _setFrame:updateBorderViewSize:] + 914
5   com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff8f44ea0e -[NSWindow _oldPlaceWindow:] + 652
6   com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff8f44de3c -[NSWindow _setFrameCommon:display:stashSize:] + 1633
7   com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff8f46225c -[NSWindow setFrameOrigin:] + 369
8   emulator64-arm                  0x000000010b8abeb4 0x10b732000 + 1547956
9   emulator64-arm                  0x000000010b8a8e95 SDL_SetVideoMode + 469
10  emulator64-arm                  0x000000010b77749b 0x10b732000 + 283803
11  emulator64-arm                  0x000000010b778aa8 0x10b732000 + 289448
12  emulator64-arm                  0x000000010b778d4e skin_window_create + 190
13  emulator64-arm                  0x000000010b77b471 0x10b732000 + 300145
14  emulator64-arm                  0x000000010b742599 qemu_main + 5833
15  emulator64-arm                  0x000000010b74d656 SDL_main + 6086
16  emulator64-arm                  0x000000010b8b0270 0x10b732000 + 1565296
17  com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x00007fff9726ce0c __CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 12
18  com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x00007fff9716082d _CFXNotificationPost + 2893
19  com.apple.Foundation            0x00007fff8ac407ba -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 68
20  com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff8f334b69 -[NSApplication _postDidFinishNotification] + 289
21  com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff8f33489c -[NSApplication _sendFinishLaunchingNotification] + 195
22  com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff8f331786 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpenEvent:] + 570
23  com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff8f3311db -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 242
24  com.apple.Foundation            0x00007fff8ac5ef0a -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 294
25  com.apple.Foundation            0x00007fff8ac5ed7d _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 106
26  com.apple.AE                    0x00007fff8c91ae1f aeDispatchAppleEvent(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*, unsigned int, unsigned char*) + 381
27  com.apple.AE                    0x00007fff8c91ac32 dispatchEventAndSendReply(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*) + 31
28  com.apple.AE                    0x00007fff8c91ab36 aeProcessAppleEvent + 315
29  com.apple.HIToolbox             0x00007fff8e098161 AEProcessAppleEvent + 56
30  com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff8f32d0b6 _DPSNextEvent + 1026
31  com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff8f32c89b -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 122
32  com.apple.AppKit                0x00007fff8f32099c -[NSApplication run] + 553
33  emulator64-arm                  0x000000010b8b0917 main + 1351
34  emulator64-arm                  0x000000010b7377e4 start + 52

Any tips/voodoo magic/suggestions on fixing this would be greatly appreciated.

Android AVD can only be launched ONCE

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