Android emulator - unable to load driver
android, android-emulator, linux
Solution
Had the same issue and my fix was to set the following env variable:
export ANDROID_EMULATOR_USE_SYSTEM_LIBS=1
In my case I put it in ~/.bashrc. With that being sent I start emulator as usual, i.e. from command line:
$ emulator -avd Nexus_4_API_23
Looks like it's a common well-known problem tracked in Android bug tracker: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=197254
Problem
Running on Ubuntu, I'm getting this error: ``` Cannot launch AVD in emulator. Output: libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so libGL error: driver pointer missing libGL error: failed to load driver: i965 libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast X Error of failed request: GLXBadContext Major opcode of failed request: 155 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 6 (X_GLXIsDirect) Serial number of failed request: 55 Current serial number in output stream: 54 ``` Platform-tools is the latest. Emulator image uses `https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/google_apis/x86_64-24_r08.zip` and it's on Android N. Update (Dec 2, 2016): @Sébastien's solution no longer works but gives: ``` Cannot launch AVD in emulator. Output: failed to create drawable getGLES2ExtensionString: Could not create GLES 2.x Pbuffer! Failed to obtain GLES 2.x extensions string! Could not initialize emulated framebuffer emulator: Listening for console connections on port: 5554 emulator: Serial number of this emulator (for ADB): emulator-5554 emulator: ERROR: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, use '-gpu off' to disable it. emulator: WARNING: ./android/metrics/metrics_reporter.cpp:142: Failed to get a writable, unused path for metrics. Tried: /home/me/.android/avd/metrics/metrics.17386.yogibear ``` If I disable GPU based rendering and switch to software based GL graphics, there is this runtime error: ``` Firebase API initialization failure. DeadSystemException: The system died; earlier logs will point to the root cause FATAL EXCEPTION: main Process: com.whatever.mobile, PID: 4501 DeadSystemException: The system died; earlier logs will point to the root cause ```