title: Android Emulator Freezing On Startup
body: <p>I am trying to run an Android emulator on Ubuntu 11.10 x64 with Eclipse 3.7. I have installed the SDK, the plugin for Eclipse, have set my PATH variables to include the android-sdk paths, installed the 32 bit libraries, and have created an AVD to run. When I go to Debug or Run however, my system hangs on:</p>
  
  <p><code>Waiting for HOME ('android.process.acore') to be launched</code></p>
  
  <p>I have seen other people hang and the solution is usually "check the Logcat" (I have no message here), "add a value for the SD Card in the AVD" (I have done this) or "Wait a while - it will happen eventually" (I let it run over night and still no dice).</p>
  
  <p>Are there any other ideas? Thanks so much!</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:</p>
  
  <p>I should also mention that I have tried relaunching the application which was another commonly suggested solution. Also, the view for the emulator launches, but I never get anything inside of the emulator window (I never see A N D R O I D for example) in case this helps.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the result of <code>-verbose</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>emulator: found SDK root at /home/devon/android-sdks
  emulator: Android virtual device file at: /home/devon/.android/avd/Test.ini
  emulator: virtual device content at /home/devon/.android/avd/Test.avd
  emulator: virtual device config file: /home/devon/.android/avd/Test.avd/config.ini
  emulator: using core hw config path: /home/devon/.android/avd/Test.avd/hardware-qemu.ini
  emulator: Found AVD target API level: 8
  emulator: found skin 'WVGA800' in directory: /home/devon/android-sdks/platforms/android-8/skins
  emulator: autoconfig: -skin WVGA800
  emulator: autoconfig: -skindir /home/devon/android-sdks/platforms/android-8/skins
  emulator: keyset loaded from: /home/devon/.android/default.keyset
  emulator: trying to load skin file '/home/devon/android-sdks/platforms/android-8/skins/WVGA800/layout'
  emulator: skin network speed: 'full'
  emulator: skin network delay: 'none'
  emulator: autoconfig: -kernel /home/devon/android-sdks/platforms/android-8/images//kernel-qemu
  emulator: autoconfig: -ramdisk /home/devon/android-sdks/platforms/android-8/images//ramdisk.img
  emulator: Using initial system image: /home/devon/android-sdks/platforms/android-8/images//system.img
  emulator: autoconfig: -data /home/devon/.android/avd/Test.avd/userdata-qemu.img
  emulator: autoconfig: -initdata /home/devon/.android/avd/Test.avd/userdata.img
  emulator: autoconfig: -cache /home/devon/.android/avd/Test.avd/cache.img
  emulator: autoconfig: -sdcard /home/devon/.android/avd/Test.avd/sdcard.img
  emulator: Physical RAM size: 128MB
  
  Content of hardware configuration file:
    hw.cpu.arch = arm
    hw.cpu.model = 
    hw.ramSize = 128
    hw.touchScreen = yes
    hw.mainKeys = yes
    hw.trackBall = yes
    hw.keyboard = yes
    hw.keyboard.lid = yes
    hw.keyboard.charmap = qwerty2
    hw.dPad = yes
    hw.gsmModem = yes
    hw.camera = no
    hw.camera.maxHorizontalPixels = 640
    hw.camera.maxVerticalPixels = 480
    hw.gps = yes
    hw.battery = yes
    hw.accelerometer = yes
    hw.audioInput = yes
    hw.audioOutput = yes
    hw.sdCard = yes
    hw.sdCard.path = /home/devon/.android/avd/Test.avd/sdcard.img
    disk.cachePartition = yes
    disk.cachePartition.path = /home/devon/.android/avd/Test.avd/cache.img
    disk.cachePartition.size = 66m
    hw.lcd.width = 480
    hw.lcd.height = 800
    hw.lcd.depth = 16
    hw.lcd.density = 240
    hw.lcd.backlight = yes
    hw.gpu.enabled = no
    hw.fakeCamera = back
    hw.webcam.count = 6
    hw.webcam.0.name = webcam0
    hw.webcam.1.name = webcam1
    hw.webcam.2.name = webcam2
    hw.webcam.3.name = webcam3
    hw.webcam.4.name = webcam4
    hw.webcam.5.name = webcam5
    hw.webcam.0.direction = front
    hw.webcam.1.direction = back
    hw.webcam.2.direction = front
    hw.webcam.3.direction = front
    hw.webcam.4.direction = front
    hw.webcam.5.direction = front
    vm.heapSize = 24
    hw.sensors.proximity = yes
    kernel.path = /home/devon/android-sdks/platforms/android-8/images//kernel-qemu
    kernel.parameters =  android.checkjni=1
    disk.ramdisk.path = /home/devon/android-sdks/platforms/android-8/images//ramdisk.img
    disk.systemPartition.initPath = /home/devon/android-sdks/platforms/android-8/images//system.img
    disk.systemPartition.size = 78m
    disk.dataPartition.path = /home/devon/.android/avd/Test.avd/userdata-qemu.img
    disk.dataPartition.size = 66m
    disk.snapStorage.path = 
    avd.name = Test
  .
  QEMU options list:
  emulator: argv[00] = "/home/devon/android-sdks/tools/emulator-arm"
  emulator: argv[01] = "-android-hw"
  emulator: argv[02] = "/home/devon/.android/avd/Test.avd/hardware-qemu.ini"
  Concatenated QEMU options:
   /home/devon/android-sdks/tools/emulator-arm -android-hw /home/devon/.android/avd/Test.avd/hardware-qemu.ini
  emulator: registered 'boot-properties' qemud service
  emulator: nand_add_dev: system,size=0x4e00000,initfile=/home/devon/android-sdks/platforms/android-8/images//system.img
  emulator: mapping 'system' NAND image to /tmp/android-devon/emulator-wbKapY
  emulator: rounding devsize up to a full eraseunit, now 4e1e000
  
  emulator: nand_add_dev: userdata,size=0x4200000,file=/home/devon/.android/avd/Test.avd/userdata-qemu.img
  emulator: registered 'boot-properties' qemud service
  emulator: Adding boot property: 'dalvik.vm.heapsize' = '24m'
  emulator: Adding boot property: 'qemu.sf.lcd_density' = '240'
  emulator: Adding boot property: 'qemu.hw.mainkeys' = '1'
  emulator: Adding boot property: 'qemu.sf.fake_camera' = 'back'
  emulator: nand_add_dev: cache,size=0x4200000,file=/home/devon/.android/avd/Test.avd/cache.img
  emulator: Kernel parameters: qemu.gles=0 qemu=1 console=ttyS0 android.qemud=ttyS1 android.checkjni=1 ndns=1
  emulator: Trace file name is not set
  
  emulator: autoconfig: -scale 1
  emulator: control console listening on port 5554, ADB on port 5555
  emulator: can't connect to ADB server: Connection refused
  emulator: ping program: /home/devon/android-sdks/tools/ddms
  emulator: ping command: /home/devon/android-sdks/tools/ddms ping emulator 15.0
  </code></pre>