Android Emulator hang up and impossible to quit

Question

Hi, i've installed the Android plugin on Eclipse 3.6 in a regular way (aka i followed step by step the google installation page). When i launch any sample application, everything work fine, but if i try to quit the emulator (by clicking the exit cross button of the emulator), the emulator seems to hang completly. What is very bothering is that i can't even kill the process, launch another emulator or even reboot my pc! (since the process seems to be impossible to stop or kill). Anyone have similar problem, and a solution to give?:b

Thanks a lot.

Antoine

Answer 1

I have seen this issue with the emulator when running Linux on some machines. That problem was related to the audio and could be helped by setting the -noaudio option when launching the emulator.

You can add emulator options in preferences-Android-Launch in eclipse. Just add -noaudio to the "default emulator options" field.