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I am a newbie android learner. I have downloaded the adt bundle from the developer's site, but I am running into problems when I run the android emulator. I have an x86-64 architecture with Ubuntu 12.04. After booting the avd, when I run the android application, it gives the following error:

[2013-09-16 18:53:50 - Emulator] X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
[2013-09-16 18:53:50 - Emulator]   Major opcode of failed request:  153 (GLX)
[2013-09-16 18:53:50 - Emulator]   Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
[2013-09-16 18:53:50 - Emulator]   Serial number of failed request:  12
[2013-09-16 18:53:50 - Emulator]   Current serial number in output stream:  12

Any ideas?

RustyTheBoyRobot
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    What is "the android application" you refer to? – Rafael T Sep 16 '13 at 14:45
  • Looks like an X11 issue. I doubt the emulator opens up at all. – George Mitchell Sep 16 '13 at 14:53
  • There is a possible solution here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10998146/android-emulator-wont-start-on-ubuntu-12-04-after-when-run-from-ssh?rq=1 ... Plus: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17133773/android-emulator-can-not-start-in-ubuntu-12-04?rq=1 Also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17805725/android-emulator-can-not-start-in-ubuntu-12-04-64bit-x-error-of-failed-request?rq=1 – George Mitchell Sep 16 '13 at 14:58
  • @RafaelT The android application is the default "Hello World" program – smiley007 Sep 16 '13 at 15:45
  • Have you tried to run the Emulator without starting an application on it? – Rafael T Sep 16 '13 at 16:16

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I had exactly the same problem. The link suggested above android emulator won't start on ubuntu 12.04 after when run from ssh included the tip to run, from the terminal, this: 

emulator-arm -avd your_avd

and it did launch the emulator.

A quick, very dirty way to make Eclipse use emulator-arm instead of emulator when launching projects, was just to rename emulator-arm as emulator in the adt-bundle/sdk/tools folder.

It works for me.

If anyone has a better idea, (i.e. how to make the generic emulator work on Ubuntu 12.04 in the first place, or how to configure eclipse so that it uses emulator-arm instead of emulator in order to launch an avd), please let us know.

Thanks.

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  • Thanks a lot for your reply:) i didn't have the graphics library installed on my system. I installed it and the android emulator is working fine now. – smiley007 May 25 '14 at 14:02