Android : failed to start emulator

Question

I am unable to start my android emulator in eclipse . I get hit with the following error message always

"Failed to start emulator: Cannot run program "/Users/anandmadhusoodanan/Desktop/Assignments/Spring-2012/Embedded_Systems_Programming/android-sdk-macosx//tools/emulator": error=1, Operation not permitted" where
 "/Users/anandmadhusoodanan/Desktop/Assignments/Spring-2012/Embedded_Systems_Programming/android-sdk-macosx" is the path of my sdk.

I have tried re-installing the ADT plug-in, the sdk and even eclipse. I am using Mac OS.

ls -l /Users/anandmadhusoodanan/Desktop/Assignments/Spring-2012/Embedded_Systems_Programming/android-sdk-macosx//tools/emulator ? — Diego Torres Milano, Mar 30 '12 at 01:44
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 anandmadhusoodanan staff 45752 Mar 16 12:19 /Users/anandmadhusoodanan/Desktop/Assignments/Spring-2012/Embedded_Systems_Programming/android-sdk-macosx//tools/emulator — hektor, Mar 30 '12 at 19:38
Size is correct. But the '@' indicates that it's a symlink and it shouldn't. — Diego Torres Milano, Mar 31 '12 at 01:59
@dtmilano: What do i do to get it working again? I've tried re-installing the sdk and the ADT plugin, but to no avail — hektor, Mar 31 '12 at 07:25
The original package doesn't have a symlink for emulator. So be sure you are downloading the official one. — Diego Torres Milano, Mar 31 '12 at 19:17
i tried to download the sdk package on my ubuntu installation. Surprising thing here is that, there is no @(symlink) shown when i check the permissions after extracting. So does this mean it is a problem with my Mac?? — hektor, Mar 31 '12 at 21:25
@dtmilano: i'm sure i'm downloading the official sdk version. Any other fix for this? — hektor, Apr 01 '12 at 17:40

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 12 '12 at 06:32

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The @ symbol indicates that there are extended attributes for the files in question. To verify the extended attributes applied to the files use:

ls -l@

You'll probably find (as I did) that there is a com.apple.quarantine attribute on the files which can be removed with:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine sdkFolder

Where sdkFolder should be replaced with the name of the folder you extracted the SDK to.

answered Apr 12 '12 at 06:32

Niki Boshoff

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THANKS A MILLIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN. Now i wont have to log-in to ubuntu to use eclipse !!! – hektor Apr 13 '12 at 09:18
I run into this problem too, the Eclipse just would not launch. Thanks a lot. – Ray Apr 24 '13 at 01:52

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 30 '12 at 02:55

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Check that you have execute permissions on the emulator

Try

$chmod 755 emulator

answered Mar 30 '12 at 02:55

Rajdeep Dua

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