Emulator can't find 'Linux version ' string in kernel image file

Question

I was building AOSP for the Nexus Player and after successful compilation I tried to run the emulator and the message I received is:

emulator: ERROR: Can't find 'Linux version ' string in kernel image file: /home/mita/Work/Nexus/out/target/product/fugu/kernel

I can't find anything about this, somebody please help.

The full output is:

emulator:Found ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT: /home/mita/Work/Nexus/out/target/product/fugu emulator:Found build target architecture: x86 emulator:Looking for emulator-x86 to emulate 'x86' CPU emulator:Probing program: ./emulator64-x86 emulator:Probing program: ./emulator-x86 emulator:Probing path for: emulator64-x86 emulator:return result: /home/mita/Work/Nexus/prebuilts/android-emulator/linux-x86_64/emulator64-x86 emulator:Found target-specific emulator binary: /home/mita/Work/Nexus/prebuilts/android-emulator/linux-x86_64/emulator64-x86 emulator:GPU emulation is disabled emulator: Running :/home/mita/Work/Nexus/prebuilts/android-emulator/linux-x86_64/emulator64-x86 emulator: qemu backend: argv[00] = "/home/mita/Work/Nexus/prebuilts/android-emulator/linux-x86_64/emulator64-x86" emulator: qemu backend: argv[01] = "-verbose" emulator: Concatenated backend parameters: /home/mita/Work/Nexus/prebuilts/android-emulator/linux-x86_64/emulator64-x86 -verbose emulator: found Android build root: /home/mita/Work/Nexus emulator: found Android build out: /home/mita/Work/Nexus/out/target/product/fugu emulator: Read property file at /home/mita/Work/Nexus/out/target/product/fugu/system/build.prop emulator: Cannot find boot properties file: /home/mita/Work/Nexus/out/target/product/fugu/boot.prop

emulator: Found target API sdkVersion: 25

emulator: virtual device has no config file - no problem emulator: using core hw config path: /home/mita/Work/Nexus/out/target/product/fugu/hardware-qemu.ini emulator: found skin-specific hardware.ini: /home/mita/Work/Nexus/development/tools/emulator/skins/HVGA/hardware.ini emulator: autoconfig: -skin HVGA emulator: autoconfig: -skindir /home/mita/Work/Nexus/development/tools/emulator/skins emulator: found skin-specific hardware.ini: /home/mita/Work/Nexus/development/tools/emulator/skins/HVGA/hardware.ini emulator: keyset loaded from: /home/mita/.android/default.keyset emulator: trying to load skin file '/home/mita/Work/Nexus/development/tools/emulator/skins/HVGA/layout' emulator: skin network speed: 'full' emulator: skin network delay: 'none' emulator: autoconfig: -kernel /home/mita/Work/Nexus/out/target/product/fugu/kernel emulator: Target arch = 'x86' emulator: Auto-config: -qemu -cpu qemu32 emulator: ERROR: Can't find 'Linux version ' string in kernel image file: /home/mita/Work/Nexus/out/target/product/fugu/kernel

Answer 1

I was having this error and the cause was my Emulator running an old version. I went to SDK Manager and updated the Android Emulator

Tools > SDK Manager > SDK Tools > Android Emulator > Mark it checked to force update > Accept

After this, the emulator ran correctly

Answer 2

See @voghDev answer above,

Tools > SDK Manager > SDK Tools > Android Emulator > Mark it checked to force update > Accept