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Asked: 2017-01-03 04:37:48 +0800 CST

Android studio buggy after upgrade to 16.10

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I recently upgraded from 16.04 LTS where my android studio was working fine to 16.10 but on trying to run my avd emulators, this is the error log i get back instead

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: 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
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: 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 r
android-studio

7 Answers

  1. In the recent android studio updates, google use a libstdc++ that is incompatible with the intel driver installed on the system

    You first have to install the following packages if there not on the system lib64stdc++6 and mesa-utils

    sudo apt-get install lib64stdc++6 mesa-utils

    Then symlink the libraries to the android sdk tools path

    ## For the /Sdk/tools path

cd ~/Android/Sdk/tools/lib64/libstdc++
# making a copy of the file
sudo mv libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6.og
# symlink
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 ~/Android/Sdk/tools/lib64/libstdc++

## For the /Sdk/emulator path

cd ~/Android/Sdk/emulator/lib64/libstdc++
# making a copy of the file
sudo mv libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6.og 
# symlink
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 ~/Android/Sdk/emulator/lib64/libstdc++
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  2. I had also this problem on Ubuntu 17.04 and here's what I did.

    Edit your .profile using your favorite text editor

    atom ~/.profile

    Append this at the end of the file

    export ANDROID_EMULATOR_USE_SYSTEM_LIBS=1

    Source: Android SDK Environment Variable

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  3. Run emulator from terminal 

    emulator -use-system-libs -avd YOUR_VIRTUAL_DEVICE_NAME
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  4. another simple workaround is to rename the libstdc++ in the emulator folder in the Android sdk directory. It will fallback to the system libs (need to be installed). That 'just worked' for me on Ubuntu 17.10.

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  5. Update the emulator.

    Tools -> SDK Manager -> SDK Tools -> Android Emulator

    enter image description here

    This is a bug which is being fixed in 27.2.9.

    The Linux version of the Android Emulator is now built using a modern Clang C++ toolchain. This change fixes the issue of the emulator failing to start due to libGL and libstdc++ errors.

    FYI: BTW manually creating symlinks is not a good idea.

    Setting ANDROID_EMULATOR_USE_SYSTEM_LIBS is a better approach. However, that's also not necessary when you could just update the emulator.

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  6. I switched the graphics acceleration from auto/hardware to software. The drivers that are causing this issue are only needed to use real hardware for graphics acceleration. Unless your working on a game or other graphics intensive software you don't really need this. This has to be done on each adv but stays set once done.

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  7. This link help. I did modify the location of the libstdc++.so based on my Ubuntu 17.10 installation. The libstdc++.so file location was different. Search your computer for libstdc++.so

    Ubuntu 17.10 and Android Studio 3.1

    cd /opt/android-sdk/emulator/lib64/libstdc++
mv libstdc++.so.6{,.bak}
mv libstdc++.so.6.0.19{,.bak}
ln -s /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/libstdc++.so
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