Starting emulator for AVD avd PANIC: Could not open: avd - Ubuntu 13.10

Question

I had been using the android sdk for quite some time in my Ubuntu. Recently, I upgraded it to Ubuntu 13.10. From then on, whenever I try to launch an android virtual device, I get this error :

Starting emulator for AVD 'Ace2'
PANIC: Could not open: Ace2

I tried changing the permissions for the files and folders but still no improvement. Any suggestion?

Answer 1

It might be that the AVD was created for a different user, as this blog post suggests. Check your /home/your-user-name/.android/avd content as well as /root/.android/avd. In my case, the AVDs I created landed up in root, whereas the IDE tried to find them in my user avd directory. Copying everything to the other AVD directory did the trick.

Good luck!