emulator: ERROR: A snapshot operation for 'Nexus_4_API_27' is pending and timeout has expired. Exiting

Question

emulator: ERROR: A snapshot operation for 'Nexus_4_API_27' is pending and timeout has expired. Exiting... 

I am getting this error when I am trying to open emulator from command-line with this bellow command.

anjan@anjan-HP-Laptop-15-bs0xx:~/Android/Sdk/emulator$ ./emulator -avd Nexus_4_API_27 

How to solve this problem?

Answer 1

Open a terminal and execute:

sudo rm ~/.android/avd/your-device/*.lock 

This command will remove files like:

• ~/.android/avd/your-device/hardware-qemu.ini.lock
• ~/.android/avd/your-device/multiinstance.lock
• ~/.android/avd/your-device/snapshot.lock.lock

Answer 2

It is caused be the lock file generated by the boot which reside in the folder = .android/avd/{yourDeviceName}.

we can delete by using sudo rm snapshot.lock.lock command.

Then cold booting the device again ,solves the issue.