Android Emulator does not work on Ubuntu 16.10

Question

I use an Acer Aspire E1-530 with an Intel 2117U Processor and 6GB of RAM.

I followed the steps given in the React Native Website to install React Native and Android Studio 2.3, and also installed KVM as given in this Ubuntu documentation. Android Studio launches without a problem, and I was successfully able to setup an AVD, but when I launch the AVD, a small window shows up for a brief second and then disappears. I also tried running emulator from ~/Android/Sdk/tools, but it shows this error:

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 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:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  155 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  24 (X_GLXCreateNewContext)
  Value in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  39
  Current serial number in output stream:  40
QObject::~QObject: Timers cannot be stopped from another thread
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

When I run emulator-check accl, I get the following output:

accel:
0
KVM (version 12) is installed and usable.
accel

Answer 1

Replace emulator's libstdc++.so with your own:

mv ~/Android/Sdk/emulator/lib64/libstdc++/libstdc++.so.6{,.bak}
mv ~/Android/Sdk/emulator/lib64/libstdc++/libstdc++.so.6.0.18 {,.bak}
ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so  ~/Android/Sdk/emulator/lib64/libstdc++/

Answer 2

Run emulator from terminal

$ emulator -use-system-libs -avd YOUR_VIRTUAL_DEVICE_NAME