OSX: Android Emulator Crashes

Question

I've just reinstalled eclipse indigo (32bit) and the latest Android SDK. The Android Emulator crashes immediately after it is launched.

Here are my steps:

1. Create a new Adroid project. Target is Android 4.0, SDK 14.
2. Press the Run button in Eclipse.
3. See the Emulator launch and crash about 2 seconds later

Output of crash window:

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

The Eclipse console complains about the following:

Warning once: This application, or a library it uses, is using NSQuickDrawView,
which has been deprecated. Apps should cease use of QuickDraw and move to Quartz.
goldfish_fb_load: framebuffer dimensions mismatch
savevm: unable to load section goldfish_fb
emulator-5554 disconnected!
Cancelling 'com.sparky1.HelloAnrdroidActivity activity launch'!

Any thoughts about how to get emulator to behave?

Answer 1

This has already been reported as a Bug: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=724

There are some workarounds presented in this post, too. But at this point, there seams to be no actual fix.

Answer 2

It looks like this happens when an external monitor is connected. Try disconnecting your external monitor and then start emulator. You can attach it back after the emulator starts.