Android Studio updated, cannot start now, internal error thrown

Question

I just updated to Android Studio 4.1 and upon startup the following issue is being thrown:

Internal error. Please refer to https://code.google.com/p/android/issues

java.util.concurrent.CompletionException: org.picocontainer.PicoRegistrationException: Key io.flutter.settings.FlutterSettings duplicated
    at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.encodeThrowable(CompletableFuture.java:273)
    at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.completeThrowable(CompletableFuture.java:280)
    at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.uniApply(CompletableFuture.java:618)
    at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.uniApplyStage(CompletableFuture.java:628)
    at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.thenApply(CompletableFuture.java:1996)
    at com.intellij.idea.ApplicationLoader.registerAppComponents(ApplicationLoader.kt:91)
    at com.intellij.idea.ApplicationLoader.executeInitAppInEdt(ApplicationLoader.kt:63)
    at com.intellij.idea.ApplicationLoader.access$executeInitAppInEdt(ApplicationLoader.kt:1)
    at com.intellij.idea.ApplicationLoader$initApplication$1$1.run(ApplicationLoader.kt:355)
    at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:311)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:764)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:98)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:715)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:74)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:734)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:205)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)
Caused by: org.picocontainer.PicoRegistrationException: Key io.flutter.settings.FlutterSettings duplicated
    at com.intellij.util.pico.DefaultPicoContainer.registerComponent(DefaultPicoContainer.java:119)
    at com.intellij.serviceContainer.ComponentManagerImpl.registerServices(ComponentManagerImpl.kt:320)
    at com.intellij.serviceContainer.ComponentManagerImpl.registerComponents(ComponentManagerImpl.kt:186)
    at com.intellij.serviceContainer.ComponentManagerImpl.registerComponents(ComponentManagerImpl.kt:157)
    at com.intellij.idea.ApplicationLoader$registerAppComponents$1.apply(ApplicationLoader.kt:93)
    at com.intellij.idea.ApplicationLoader$registerAppComponents$1.apply(ApplicationLoader.kt)
    at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.uniApply(CompletableFuture.java:616)
    ... 20 more

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JRE 1.8.0_242-release-1644-b3-6222593 x86_64 by JetBrains s.r.o
/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home/jre

I've followed the advice here to completely uninstall Android Studio: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18458893/471713 and on clean install it's still throwing the error. Is there anywhere else I should look? I have other Jetbrains applications installed, so I'm not sure if there is some sort of conflict with another app?

Answer 1

for the recent updates Sep 2024 and up. you need to go : C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Google\AndroidStudio4.1\disabled_plugins.txt and empty the text file. then relaunch the IDE

Answer 2

Go to This pc (my computer) -> Windows Drives (c:/) -> open Users folder -> open your pc user folder - > unhide all folder -> open AppData folder-> open Roaming folder -> open google folder -> now, delete all android studio folders -> run Android Studio and reconfigure

Answer 3

With a very simple method, I searched for "AndroidStudio" in the Finder Search in Macos Catalina and carefully deleted the AndroidStudio20xxx ones in the lower folders of the folders that came out one by one. I started Android studio and the problem disappeared. The new installation no longer has this problem. Note Do not delete AndroidStudio "Projects" :)

Answer 4

Try also re-installing (uninstall then reinstall) Android Studio

Answer 5

FOR WINDOW 10

My problem is gone after this solution 👍 Try may be the solution for your problem too

Run following command in Command Prompt as administrator

👉 netsh winsock reset

Restart your machine

I found the solution here 💢 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmWUrFIK8RY

Answer 6

For the latest versions on macOS remove the plugins directory

~/Library/Application Support/Google/<android_studio_version>/plugins
~/Library/Application Support/Google/AndroidStudio2020.3/plugins

or go to ~/Library/Application Support/Google/AndroidStudio2020.3/plugins directory and remove the troublesome plugin you installed.

Answer 7

Enable "Show hidden files and folders" in the explorer view settings. and follow this path and delete "flutter storm": C:\Users\owsb0\AppData\Roaming\Google\AndroidStudio4.1\plugins

Answer 8

I had the same issue on MacOS. Deleting the marketplace directory which contains plugins resolved the issue for me.

rm -Rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/AndroidStudio4.0/marketplace/

Answer 9

I had the same isssue on Ubuntu 20.04, here is what I did to fix it:

Delete Android Studio

Delete folder ~/.AndroidStudio

Delete folder ~/.android

Delete folder ~/.local/share/Google/AndroidStudio*

Delete folder ~/.gradle

Delete folder ~/.config/Google/AndroidStudio*

Delete the Android sdk-folder (if not inside the android-studio dir)

I cleared the trash folder as well. Reboot, then re-install Android Studio. It should work now.