Sometime when use the Android emulator post recent version update or usually, it throws the error ‘The Emulator process for AVD has terminated’ into Linux system.
Main reason for The Emulator process for AVD has terminated error is the low disk space into your Linux system.
To fix ‘The Emulator process for AVD has terminated’ error, delete some unnecessary files from your system to clear the low disk space, stop and restart the android emulator again, it would fix the issue.
For me, reason was lower disk space into my local system.
To fix The Emulator process for AVD has terminated error, delete some unnecessary files from your system to clear the lower disk space, stop and restart the emulator again, it would run successfully.
Steps into Linux to fix the The Emulator process for AVD has terminated Linux error:
- Go to the Sdk/emulator directory
- Run ./emulator -list-avds
- Note down the AVD() name
- Run ./emulator @<AVD Name>
It would launch the emulator with your preferred device and shows the reason for error into running android emulator.
As mentioned, ‘The Emulator process for AVD has terminated’ Linux error is seen because of lower disk space so you would be seeing error message as ’emulator: ERROR: Not enough space to create userdata partition. Available:’ into log files after using the above mentioned command.
As a fix, either clean the used disk space or change the another disk partition to use for android emulator AVD location by setting environment variable ‘ANDROID_AVD_HOME’ to another preferred location.
Now, restart the system and run the android studio again, create the device back and it would fix the error The Emulator process for AVD has terminated Linux for you.
To install Android Emulator:
Go to Tools -> SDK Manager -> SDK Tools -> tick the ‘Android Emulator’ and click Apply. Now, Android emulator will get install back.
Once Android emulator is installed back, restart the android studio, create the emulator device and run it again.
Now android emulator should start working successfully and error The Emulator process for AVD has terminated would be fixed.
If still issue persists, you need to make changes into vCPU, memory and disk space configuration for android studio.
To change vCPU, memory and disk space configuration:
Go to AVD Manager -> ‘Edit Virtual Device’ -> Advance Settings -> Emulated Performance -> change Graphics value and RAM values into Memory and storage option.
You can give a try to update your system display drivers if using any extended monitor or screen, might be graphics or display driver is creating the issue ‘The Emulator process for AVD has terminated’ for you.
Update the driver, restart your system and re-run the Android emulator to fix the issue, The Emulator process for AVD has terminated.