title: Why does latest Android Studio emulator crash or get stuck
body: <p>Since I upgraded my Android Studio installation to Bumblebee, the emulator has become unusable. It either crashes during startup or gets itself stuck so that the UI is unresponsive and the debugger either cannot install or cannot launch an app. The way in which it fails varies from time to time for no reason that I can understand. although different virtual devices seem to behave differently. I tried deleting my old virtual devices and creating new ones, but that didn't help.</p>
  <p>I can't debug my code on a real phone because of a different problem, see my recent answer to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63556563/source-code-does-not-match-the-bytecode-for-androids-view-java/71334049#71334049">Source code does not match the bytecode for Android&#39;s View.java</a>.</p>
  <p>When it crashes I send a crash report to Google, but they don't seem to be fixing it. The problems started with the first official Bumblebee release 2021.1.1, which seemed to have a complete new version of the emulator, and I'm now on the latest stable version 2021.1.1 Patch 2.</p>
  <p>My environment is a Dell Precision M4800 with 16GB of RAM and an 8-core Intel processor, using an external 4K monitor and an external full-size keyboard, running Linux openSUSE Leap 15.3 with all recommended patches installed.</p>
  <p>Does anyone have any suggestion short of throwing away my entire Android Studio installation and reverting back to Arctic Fox? Has anyone else seen similar problems?</p>