I am getting this error when i start an avd in android studio.
Any help would be appreciated. And also unable to start android studio except from terminal.
PANIC: HOME is defined but could not find Nexus_4_API_21.ini file in $HOME/.android/avd
(Note: avd is searched in the order of $ANDROID_AVD_HOME,$ANDROID_SDK_HOME/.android/avd and $HOME/.android/avd)
In my case, I had especially installed Android Studio on my D: drive (for space reasons). On my installation, the avd directory was located in D:\MyInstall\.android\.avd
The solution for me was to define a Windows environment variable (user variable) with Variable name: ANDROID_SDK_HOME and Variable value: D:\MyInstall
I restarted Android Studio and the emulator worked.
This appears to be a bug in the Android Studio installer, since I explicitly stated the D: location in the install wizard. The installer should probably have set this variable.
Set the variable ANDROID_SDK_HOME to < home directory > / .android / .avd
For creating this variable under Win7, please go to control panel -> system -> advanced parameters -> environment variables. In the "user variables" block, Click on "new". Please fill the variable name and its value. Close all dialog by clickin on button "OK" and launch android studio.
Go through this link for more solutions if the above one doesn't work out for you.
In my case, I set the ANDROID_AVD_HOME environment variable to "C:\Users\DELL.android\avd".
If the error still persists try running android studio as administrator in windows, it worked for me.
I also came across to the same problem while launching Android emulator launch.
PANIC: HOME is defined but could not find testAvd.ini file in $HOME\.android\avd
(Note: avd is searched in the order of $ANDROID_AVD_HOME,$ANDROID_SDK_HOME\.android\avd and $HOME\.android\avd)
There are two solutions I found for the above problem.
Goto run and type regedit for windows and check the path set in the registry variables in under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->Android Studio
And check the .android\avd referring to the location of your testAvd.ini location. If not, either correct it or put your ini file at the UserSettingsPath present in your disc location.
This solved the problem for me. Just follow the link. It explains why it happens and how to get around it. :)
http://kalpa-gunarathna.blogspot.com/2015/04/android-emulator-not-starting-on-ubuntu.html
Related
I have the following error that pops up when I try to run the emulator:
Emulator: emulator: ERROR: Unknown AVD name [Nexus_5X_API_27], use
-list-avds to see valid list.
Emulator: Process finished with exit code 1
Given that I just created the avd, can you help me understand why it cannot find it and how to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance
I experienced the same issue, regardless of the AVD. I'm too new to understand why, but it seems that Android Studio created /.android/avd directories in two locations:
/root/.android/avd
/home/USERNAME/.android/avd
The .avd and .ini created when creating a new AVD were stored in the 1st location, and the 2nd location was empty. To resolve it, I copied and pasted both the .avd and .ini files for each AVD from 1 to 2 (they needed to be in both in order for AS to see and run the AVD). The emulator then ran successfully.
Why this happened?
When you try to start the avd, android studio will find the Nexus_5X_API_27.ini in $ANDROID_SDK_HOME/avd/. But when you create the avd by android studio, the Nexus_5X_API_27.ini is been put into $HOME/.android/avd/. So android studio can not find the ini file to start the avd.
Resolution
Copy the Nexus_5X_API_27.ini from $HOME/.android/avd/ to $ANDROID_SDK_HOME/avd/ will solve the problem.
When you create the AVD with Android Studio it's created in root location but our Android SDk location is set on somewhere in HOME. So you just need to move your avd folder from root location to home location path.
Root location path:
/root/.android/avd
Home location path:
/home/USERNAME/.android/avd
You don't need to keep avd folder on both the location because whenever you run your app on avd from Android Studio it's always looking it on HOME location.
I was having the same issue. but I did the below
I copied the folder C:\Users\USER_NAME\.android\avd and pasted inside the folder where the Sdk file located i.e C:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk and finaly it worked fine for me
I had the same issue working with Android Studio in Win64. I have tried all the above suggested solutions, but none of them worked i.e., even after config changes the emulator was in error state throwing the same error.
However, after reverting back all the config changes and restarting the Android Studio fixed the error. The emulators are up and running. To be honest, there is no custom environment variables defined.
Only exception in my case is, the .ini files are getting created/stored in the $USER_HOME/.android/avd/ directory.
Adding my answer as it may help someone who is facing the similar issue.
For windows users, see the ANDROID_SDK_HOME path,then check the ANDROID_SDK_HOME/avd/,is there that Emulator(you just created) existed?If there's not existed,then copy the emulator.avd and emulator.ini files in ANDROID_SDK_HOME/.android/avd/ to ANDROID_SDK_HOME/avd/, finally it did worked!
There are actually several environment variables that you can set:
ANDROID_SDK_HOME
ANDROID_EMULATOR_HOME (default is $ANDROID_SDK_HOME/.android/)
ANDROID_AVD_HOME (default is $ANDROID_EMULATOR_HOME/avd/)
See https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/variables
The default location of the Android SDK is your home directory, which depends on your operating system. For instance, on Windows it's C:\Users\*Owner*\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk.
If you have moved your home directory to a different disc, you can use the environment variables mentioned above to adjust the paths on a as-needed basis.
Deleting C:\Android\android-sdk and reinstalling android studio fixed this for me.
If your Android Studio create AVDs in the ~/.android/avd directory, here are the step by step instructions:
Open control panel
Then go to System
Then go to Change Environment Variables of the User
Then click create a new environment variables
Create a new variable named ANDROID_SDK_HOME
Set its value to your Android directory, like C:/users//.android
While running an app on the virtual device (AVD) created on Android studio (in Windows 10), I am getting an error and panic.
Emulator: PANIC: Cannot find AVD system path. Please define ANDROID_SDK_ROOT
Emulator: Process finished with exit code 1
While I have already defined my ANDROID_SDK_ROOT in the environment variables.
Can anyone please tell me how to resolve this problem?
Open Android Studio and under the Tools you will find the AVD manager. Click on it and ensure that you have a valid virtual device with the SDK downloaded (click "download" in the Actions column if shown). Then ensure that the correct virtual device is selected on the toolbar.
define ANDROID_SDK_ROOT as environment variable where your SDK is residing, default path would be "C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk" and restart computer to take effect.
Go to Control Panel>>System and Security>>System>>Advance system settings>>Environment Variables then set variable value of ANDROID_HOME set it like this "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Android\sdk" set username as your pc name, then restart your android studio. after that you can create your AVD again than the error will gone than it will start the virtual device.
My problem was solved by creating a Windows user without an accent or special characters and reinstalling android studio on that user. Another change is to change the environment variables:
Left Click in My Computer > Advanced System Settings> Advanced > Environment Variables
ANDROID_HOME = c:\my_sdk_path
ANDROID_SDK_ROOT = c:\my_sdk_path
JAVA_HOME = c:\program files\Java\yourJavaPath
the default path of SDK is c:\users\youruser\AppData\LocalAndroid\sdk
Add in Path Variable the values:
%ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools
%ANDROID_HOME%\tools
After changes, restart windows and try again!
For those coming here with a Mac:
I had the same issue and the problem was, I created an emulator with API Level 29 but removed that SDK and installed 28 instead.
The emulator that was not able to be launched anymore.
Therefore check the AVD Manager if your emulator really can be launched.
Check C:\Users\User path. Change User directory name (may be something different name) from your alphabet to English alphabet. Warning: it is dangerous operation, learn it before changing. Android Studio can not access to AVD throw users\Your alphabet name\.android.
create environment variable like in the screenshot and make sure to replace with your sdk path in my case it was C:\Users\zeesh\AppData\Local\Android\sdk replace zeesh with your username and make sure to restart android studio to take effect.
Android Studio Picture
Make sure you have an Android Virtual Device selected to output the app to. In the picture I put on this post you can see I selected the Android Virtual Device "Nexus 5" as the output device. Doing this removed the error for me.
Try to use the argument: -sysdir <Your_SDK_DIR> and then check whether the error message displayed.
See also: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/qemu/+/1a15692cded92d66dea1a51389a3c4b9e3b3631a/android/emulator/main-emulator.cpp
Check out these clip you will find out the reason:
// Sanity checks.
if (avdName) {
if (!isCpuArchSupportedByRanchu(avdArch)) {
APANIC("CPU Architecture '%s' is not supported by the QEMU2 emulator, (the classic engine is deprecated!)",
avdArch);
}
std::string systemPath = getAvdSystemPath(avdName, sysDir);
if (systemPath.empty()) {
const char* env = getenv("ANDROID_SDK_ROOT");
if (!env || !env[0]) {
APANIC("Cannot find AVD system path. Please define "
"ANDROID_SDK_ROOT\n");
} else {
APANIC("Broken AVD system path. Check your ANDROID_SDK_ROOT "
"value [%s]!\n",
env);
}
}
}
Then if you see emulator: ERROR: can't find SDK installation directory, please check this solution.
Android emulator errors with "emulator: ERROR: can't find SDK installation directory"
If you experience this error when upgrading from one version of Android Studio to another and you have non-english characters in your home directory, the following could help.
Even though the error message are pointing at ANDROID_SDK_ROOT in my case non-english characters in the user folder which holds the avd-folder caused the problem (C:\Users\Björn\.android\avd).
In this case a simple solution is to create a new avd-folder outside of the user folder and define an environment variable named ANDROID_AVD_HOME which points to the new folder (for instance C:\andoid\avd) and restart Android Studio.
In Korean version of Windows 10, this problem happened because my Windows user name was in Korean not in English. After the user name was made again in English, the problem was cleared.
I had the same problem when I was trying to move the android studio to another Drive as it was taking a lot of space in my C(Windows drive) Drive, Here's what fixed my problem:-
Copy the C:\Users\ #YourUserName\ .android folder to another drive,
Go to start environment variable make a new variable named
ANDROID_SDK_HOME and add the path of the new location like mine is
F:\Android AVD( don't add .android to it )
Then add ANDROID_SDK_HOME to the existing Path variable.
Open android studio, go to configure --> AVD manager and you'll see that you've successfully moved to a new location.
Find the ANDROID_HOME path values from environment variable. In my case it is like C:\Users\RuwanPr\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk.
If this value not found please add ANDROID_HOME value as your sdk path.
(To go to environment variable right click on my computer -> Properties -> Advance System Settings -> Environment Variable )
Then open cmd on windows and go to sdk folder and then go to tools folder
Type emulator -list-avds in comd. It will shows avd name list.
Then type emulator -avd avd-name.
Ex - think avd-name shows as J2_Api_22
emulator -avd J2_Api_22
Update Android emulator alone from SDK tool
I'm brand new to Android development and Eclipse so I have just set it all up and I am attempting the Hello World tutorial. Sadly when I try and run the program I get the following error:
PANIC: Could not open: C:\Users\Nathan Smith.android/avd/Droid_4.0.3.ini
I have heard that you should avoid spaces in these paths. Is the space in the name where the problem is? If so how do I go about changing it?
If anyone could help me out with this that would be grand.
By the way I also noticed that my SDK path is C:\Users\Asus Laptop\android-sdks\ should I change this to the same user? This was not intentional, is there an easy way of me changing this to the right user?
This has been asked a few times already, try this:
Create a environment variable called: ANDROID_SDK_HOME and set it to
C:\Users\Administrator
Open Eclipse > Window > Preferences and click
in Run/Debug and String Substitution
Add a new variable called:
user.home and set it to C:\Users\Administrator
Create an AVD and run
it.
Android Emulator can't start, 'cause of wrong folder
android emulator error:[2011-08-02 11:14:01 - Emulator] PANIC: Could not open: C:\Users\hallo\.android/avd/myemu.ini
I have problem in a emulator
A simple solution,
Create your avd with normal steps. e.g. avd name is Nexus_One. You will see Nexus_One folder and Nexus_One.ini file at D:\Users\Nathan Smith\.android\avd
Copy Nexus_One.ini to C:\Users\Nathan Smith\.android\avd
Try running avd through AVD Manager. It will start the emulator.
Reason being it works, if you read ini file, you will find path variable as below,
path=D:\Users\Nathan Smith\.android\avd\Nexus_One.avd
path.rel=avd\Nexus_One.avd
So, when you start emulator, it check the ini and tries to start emulator from path mentioned in path variable.
Hope this solves your problem.
Find the .android folder on your cpu. You can find it by going to Window -> Preferences -> Android -> Build, and see the "Default debug keystore:" path location.
After you find it, move the .android folder to your user root directory
- which may be "C:\Users\Nathan Smith\" in your case.
I had the same problem, but now its fixed.
Go to Windows in Eclipse, Windows->preference->run/debug->stringSubstitution-> add variable name as "user.home" Then the value will be your profile path
Example: mine is C:\users\sriramk\.android
Now open the default .android path, copy the content, and paste that content into
C:\users\sriramk\.android. Restart Eclipse and now the emulator will open.
The simple solution is to create a symbolic link between your home directory and destination .android directory. The problem is that emulator looks for files on in your home directory.
mklink /D Link Target
Probably you can copy .android dir or change a setting.
The AVD manager normally uses the user's profile directory to store AVD files.
However it failed to find the default profile directory.
To fix this, please set the environment variable ANDROID_SDK_HOME to a valid path such as "".
Step 1. (Windows 7 Only... 64-bit version Tested) Go to your start menu, then open the Control Panel.Click System and Security, click System, then open up the Advanced System Settings (on the left). Go to the Advanced Tab, then click Environment Variables.Check your user variables.
If you don't, find A variable named ANDROID_SDK_HOME with the Value, click new. In the Variable Name box, type in "ANDROID_SDK_HOME" (Without quotes).
In the Variable Value, type in something like c:/Users/jorge/AppData/Local/Android/Android-sdk. Click OK.Then click OK. Click OK again. Close the Control Panel and restart your computer.
Try Running SDK or AVD Manager(s) again. Create an AVD and run it.
Home Folder Redirection To UNC / AVD Shows UNC Path
If you're unfortunate to have network UNC path mapped as your home directory using Windows Folder Redirection then AVD will fail to start.
You should also have a normal user directory under C:\Users, which contains non-mapped stuff. The trick is for Android SDK to use this instead. Similar to other answers, you need to set ANDROID_SDK_HOME user environment variable to your C:\ based home directory.
For example:
ANDROID_SDK_HOME = C:\Users\MyUserName
Restart Eclipse.
In my hunt for a resolution, I found this answer which gives a great performance increase: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19338671/1554386
I had the same problem, the issue seemed to be low disk space on the drive containing the emulator files (C).
I'm brand new to Android development and Eclipse so I have just set it all up and I am attempting the Hello World tutorial. Sadly when I try and run the program I get the following error:
PANIC: Could not open: C:\Users\Nathan Smith.android/avd/Droid_4.0.3.ini
I have heard that you should avoid spaces in these paths. Is the space in the name where the problem is? If so how do I go about changing it?
If anyone could help me out with this that would be grand.
By the way I also noticed that my SDK path is C:\Users\Asus Laptop\android-sdks\ should I change this to the same user? This was not intentional, is there an easy way of me changing this to the right user?
This has been asked a few times already, try this:
Create a environment variable called: ANDROID_SDK_HOME and set it to
C:\Users\Administrator
Open Eclipse > Window > Preferences and click
in Run/Debug and String Substitution
Add a new variable called:
user.home and set it to C:\Users\Administrator
Create an AVD and run
it.
Android Emulator can't start, 'cause of wrong folder
android emulator error:[2011-08-02 11:14:01 - Emulator] PANIC: Could not open: C:\Users\hallo\.android/avd/myemu.ini
I have problem in a emulator
A simple solution,
Create your avd with normal steps. e.g. avd name is Nexus_One. You will see Nexus_One folder and Nexus_One.ini file at D:\Users\Nathan Smith\.android\avd
Copy Nexus_One.ini to C:\Users\Nathan Smith\.android\avd
Try running avd through AVD Manager. It will start the emulator.
Reason being it works, if you read ini file, you will find path variable as below,
path=D:\Users\Nathan Smith\.android\avd\Nexus_One.avd
path.rel=avd\Nexus_One.avd
So, when you start emulator, it check the ini and tries to start emulator from path mentioned in path variable.
Hope this solves your problem.
Find the .android folder on your cpu. You can find it by going to Window -> Preferences -> Android -> Build, and see the "Default debug keystore:" path location.
After you find it, move the .android folder to your user root directory
- which may be "C:\Users\Nathan Smith\" in your case.
I had the same problem, but now its fixed.
Go to Windows in Eclipse, Windows->preference->run/debug->stringSubstitution-> add variable name as "user.home" Then the value will be your profile path
Example: mine is C:\users\sriramk\.android
Now open the default .android path, copy the content, and paste that content into
C:\users\sriramk\.android. Restart Eclipse and now the emulator will open.
The simple solution is to create a symbolic link between your home directory and destination .android directory. The problem is that emulator looks for files on in your home directory.
mklink /D Link Target
Probably you can copy .android dir or change a setting.
The AVD manager normally uses the user's profile directory to store AVD files.
However it failed to find the default profile directory.
To fix this, please set the environment variable ANDROID_SDK_HOME to a valid path such as "".
Step 1. (Windows 7 Only... 64-bit version Tested) Go to your start menu, then open the Control Panel.Click System and Security, click System, then open up the Advanced System Settings (on the left). Go to the Advanced Tab, then click Environment Variables.Check your user variables.
If you don't, find A variable named ANDROID_SDK_HOME with the Value, click new. In the Variable Name box, type in "ANDROID_SDK_HOME" (Without quotes).
In the Variable Value, type in something like c:/Users/jorge/AppData/Local/Android/Android-sdk. Click OK.Then click OK. Click OK again. Close the Control Panel and restart your computer.
Try Running SDK or AVD Manager(s) again. Create an AVD and run it.
Home Folder Redirection To UNC / AVD Shows UNC Path
If you're unfortunate to have network UNC path mapped as your home directory using Windows Folder Redirection then AVD will fail to start.
You should also have a normal user directory under C:\Users, which contains non-mapped stuff. The trick is for Android SDK to use this instead. Similar to other answers, you need to set ANDROID_SDK_HOME user environment variable to your C:\ based home directory.
For example:
ANDROID_SDK_HOME = C:\Users\MyUserName
Restart Eclipse.
In my hunt for a resolution, I found this answer which gives a great performance increase: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19338671/1554386
I had the same problem, the issue seemed to be low disk space on the drive containing the emulator files (C).
When trying to create an AVD with the android SDK AVD manager I get 'Error: null'. This keeps happening because the SDK manager is looking for 'List of existing Android Virtual Devices located at \...(wrong location).
How can I change the file location?
I had similar issue. I have solved this by setting up the environment variable ANDROID_SDK_HOME in my startup script. The path shall be your desired location of .android folder, excluding the last slash. Example:
SET ANDROID_SDK_HOME=C:\Users\toybuilder\Downloads
I had the same problem this weekend. In my case, I was able to create the AVD's, but not able to start them.
The problem was caused by the AVD Manager creating the AVD's in a different directory from where the emulator was trying to launch the AVD's.
In my case, AVD Manager was initially reporting the list of existing Android Virtual Device located at C:\Users\toybuilder\Downloads\.android\avd
It turns out that my Java runtime (in this case, JDK 1.6u24) was reporting C:\Users\toybuilder\Downloads as my home directory (user.home property). I first confirmed this via Eclipse:
In Eclipse, go to:
Eclipse Menu: Help -> About Eclipse
Click on the [Installation Details]
Click on the [Configuration] tab:
The text box fills with an extended dump of the Eclipse environment .
Look for the user.home value. In my case, the line read:
user.home=C:\Users\toybuilder\Downloads
It turns out that there's a long-standing Java bug (nearly 9 years old) on how the Java runtime determine's the user.home property - as discussed elsewhere on StackOverflow
In my particular case, the buggy behavior was triggered by a bad windows folders redirection. I had apparently moved my Desktop folder into my Downloads directory at some point by accident. Although I had fixed the problem, it nevertheless left an entry in my registry with a Desktop folder redirection to the Downloads directory. There was a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Desktop registry key that pointed, incorrectly, to C:\Users\toybuilder\Downloads\Desktop
The Java runtime was apparently setting user.home as "Desktop"/.. (i.e., the Downloads directory), while some other mechanisms were resolving the home directory at the correct location (probably the Windows %userprofile% environmental value) -- and hence when the emulator was starting up, it could not find the .android/avd directory, because it was looking from a different starting directory.
After I deleted the incorrect redirection registry key, the problem went away.
Windows with "folder redirection" have this issue. If you are logged in a domain and the admin has set a redirection for your home folders eclipse/android SDK cannot read correctly some files. You can try the following steps:
Close Eclipse
Just set a user environmental variable like:
Variable Name:ANDROID_SDK_HOME
Variable Value:C:\Users\{your login}
Copy the .android folder from the "redirection" folder to C:\Users\{your login}
Start Eclipse.
Now the AVDs should work fine.
I have a Solution for this error:
Right click Folder "C:\User\yournamecomputer.android" and uncheck Read-Only
it work for me :D
SET ANDROID_SDK_HOME variable not working for me.
Open eclipse
Click on window menu and then select preference.
Select android from left hand side.
Now SET SDK location e.g. E:\android\sdk instead of ../sdk means set Absolute path instead of Relative path.
Its worked for me.
I hope this help someone and save time.