title: An error occurred while creating the AVD. See idea.log for details. ubuntu 16.04
body: <p>I followed the the link below, to create a android virtual device(AVD).</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://developer.android.com/studio/run/managing-avds.html" rel="noreferrer">https://developer.android.com/studio/run/managing-avds.html</a></p>
  
  <p>As soon as I click on finish button, it gives me the following error:</p>
  
  <p>An error occurred while creating the AVD. See idea.log for details.
  As I can see last line gives access denied error. Is it requireing the permissions to the .android folder? When I try to give permissions to .android folder, It doesn't allow me. It says</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>chmod: cannot access '777': No such file or directory</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>some last lines of idea.log file are</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>idea.log</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code>2018-01-11 13:00:17,173 [d thread 4]   INFO - .diagnostic.PerformanceWatcher - Indexable file iteration took 86ms; general responsiveness: ok; EDT responsiveness: ok 
  2018-01-11 13:00:18,629 [d thread 1]   INFO - .script.IdeScriptEngineManager - javax.script.ScriptEngineManager initialized in 72 ms 
  2018-01-11 13:00:19,672 [se-915-b01]   INFO - pl.ProjectRootManagerComponent - project roots have changed 
  2018-01-11 13:00:19,706 [d thread 2]   INFO - .diagnostic.PerformanceWatcher - Pushing properties took 2ms; general responsiveness: ok; EDT responsiveness: ok 
  2018-01-11 13:00:19,766 [d thread 2]   INFO - .diagnostic.PerformanceWatcher - Indexable file iteration took 60ms; general responsiveness: ok; EDT responsiveness: ok 
  2018-01-11 13:00:22,373 [d thread 3]   INFO - tools.idea.ddms.adb.AdbService - Initializing adb using: /home/shivam/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb, client support = false 
  2018-01-11 13:00:22,466 [err reader]   WARN -            #com.android.ddmlib - * daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037 
  2018-01-11 13:00:26,005 [err reader]   WARN -            #com.android.ddmlib - * daemon started successfully 
  2018-01-11 13:00:26,220 [d thread 3]   INFO - tools.idea.ddms.adb.AdbService - Successfully connected to adb 
  2018-01-11 13:00:46,918 [se-915-b01]   WARN - vdmanager.AvdManagerConnection - java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /home/shivam/.android/avd/Nexus_5X_API_23.ini 
  2018-01-11 13:01:04,305 [d thread 1]   INFO - tools.idea.ddms.adb.AdbService - Initializing adb using: /home/shivam/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb, client support = true 
  2018-01-11 13:01:04,323 [err reader]   WARN -            #com.android.ddmlib - * daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037 
  2018-01-11 13:01:07,454 [err reader]   WARN -            #com.android.ddmlib - * daemon started successfully 
  2018-01-11 13:01:07,656 [d thread 1]   INFO - tools.idea.ddms.adb.AdbService - Successfully connected to adb 
  2018-01-11 13:01:54,534 [se-915-b01]   WARN - vdmanager.AvdManagerConnection - java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /home/shivam/.android/avd/Nexus_5X_API_23.ini 
  </code></pre>