Cannot launch emulator on Linux (Ubuntu 15.10)

Take a look at

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=197254

in particular items #3 and #19. This is a workaround rather than a true solution, but it got me moving again. You will have to adjust the command for:

• the location of the libstdc++.so.6 file on your system - I used locate libstdc++.so.6 to find this
• the path to the emulator executable
• the name of your emulator

so my command was

LD_PRELOAD='/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6' ~/Android/Sdk/tools/emulator -netdelay none -netspeed full -avd Nexus_5_API_21

This then launches the emulator, and you can select it in the 'Device Chooser' dialogue when you run your app.

$ cd Android/Sdk/emulator/lib64/libstdc++
$ mv libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6.bak
$ ln -s /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6

it's worked for me

Using the libstdc++.so.6 that is available in your system instead of the one bundled with the android sdk solves this issue.

• The emulator has a switch -use-system-libs to do this.

  ~/Android/Sdk/tools/emulator -avd Nexus_5_API_23 -use-system-libs

• Alternatively you can set the ANDROID_EMULATOR_USE_SYSTEM_LIBS environment variable to 1 for your user/system. This has the benefit of making sure that the emulator will work even if you launched it from within Android Studio.

More details: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=197254#c15