Android Emulator crashes with SIGSEGV on Ubuntu 18.04

Question

Android Studio version:

Android Studio 3.1.2

Build #AI-173.4720617, built on April 14, 2018

It's installed from Ubuntu's snap store. I installed the kvm using 1. Setting Up Android Studio on Ubuntu · uw-it-aca/spacescout-android Wiki. I tried what Solve Android Studio AVD issue with Ubuntu distros - cialu.net suggested, but now the lib64 folder doesn't contain libstdc++. The closest I could find is libc++.so.1, and I tried to install it using

sudo apt install libc++1

and link it similarly, but it just got my pc stuck. I also looked at the threads linked by Android emulator segmentation fault's answer but they look old..

I also tried How to solve Android Studio Emulator: libGL error on Ubuntu systems - cialu.net, but it didn't help.

I tried Android Emulator is not starting in Ubuntu's answer, using How to install the NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux - LinuxConfig.org to install the Nvidia drivers, but still not working. This is the output from ubuntu-drivers devices:

== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001401sv00001043sd0000854Dbc03sc00i00
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
model    : GM206 [GeForce GTX 960]
driver   : nvidia-driver-390 - distro non-free recommended
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

The only thing that worked is Android virtual device manager crashes with “double free or corruption”'s answer, but I want the hardware acceleration..

Can you please help me?

Dysthymia

I've been trying to solve the same issue for a day now with no success. Have you made any progress since asking the question? – Extrapolate

Answer 1

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"

Extrapolate

Thanks a lot, great work! I had problems debugging native code when using the software graphics, so that helped in that too! – Dysthymia

Answer 2

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 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Lardaceous

Answer 3

In my case the SIGSEGV occurs while switching between workspaces (virtual desktops), and appears to be a bug in gnome-shell and/or gjs, as reported here on launchpad. Give this bug some heat if you're affected.

Sophia

In my case it was caused from the animation between work spaces. Disabling it solved the problem askubuntu.com/a/1083797/650195 – Lambaste

Answer 4

I downloaded a fresh version of Android Studio (AS) onto a new installation of Ubuntu 18.04 last month. I could compile my app inside AS but when I tried to run it on an emulator (Next_5X_API_27 or Pixel_2_API_24) the emulator crashed with a SEGV fault. I tried some things I saw on the web but nothing helped. I install Fedora 25 on a space hard drive but with the same result.

Then I tried attaching my smartphone to the computer via USB and entered AS. The device came up when I tried to run my app and AS installed it on the device without me asking and ran it correctly there. Now I can continue my project.

Weidner

The question was about making the emulator work, I'm well aware I can use a real device, but for technical reasons, I needed the emulator – Dysthymia