Android Emulator crashes with SIGSEGV on Ubuntu 18.04
After days of struggle I finally got it to work. The problem for me was that even if the OS was reporting Nvidia drivers as installed that was not the case. Checking with "lshw -c video" was showing that "nouveau" was in use regardless of how I was installing Nvidia ones - command line or using "Software & Updates" GUI.
What I've done was:
- install Ubuntu 18.04 without the option to install 3rd party software for graphics
- disable secure boot from BIOS. This was a key part which was preventing Nvidia drivers from being installed
- install drivers from command line with "sudo apt install nvidia-driver-390"
Another (easy) way to fix this is to follow the driver installation instructions given here: https://askubuntu.com/a/1033498
i.e.
$ ubuntu-drivers devices $ sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
Then reboot, and use:
$ nvidia-smi
To confirm the drivers installed correctly, where the output should be something like:
Sun Feb 17 16:28:49 2019
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 390.77 Driver Version: 390.77 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 Quadro P400 Off | 00000000:09:00.0 On | N/A |
| 34% 26C P0 N/A / N/A | 199MiB / 1997MiB | 0% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 1107 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 96MiB |
| 0 2646 G ...or/qemu/linux-x86_64/qemu-system-x86_64 99MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+