title: Android emulator segmentation fault
body: <p>Running it from the command line resulted in a segmentation fault:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ emulator -avd nexus_s
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, running emulator-arm directly as follows, works fine.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ emulator-arm -avd nexus_s
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I suspect it's trying to run the mips or x86 version of the emulator.
  Is there a way to configure the emulator which executable to start?</p>
  
  <p>All this started after updating to android sdk 17.</p>
  
  <p>Adding the -verbose flag gives the following output (which I don't think adds any info):</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ emulator -verbose -avd nexus_s
  emulator: found SDK root at /opt/sdk
  emulator: Android virtual device file at: /home/grebulon/.android/avd/nexus_s.ini
  emulator: virtual device content at /home/grebulon/.android/avd/nexus_s.avd
  emulator: virtual device config file: /home/grebulon/.android/avd/nexus_s.avd/config.ini
  emulator: using core hw config path: /home/grebulon/.android/avd/nexus_s.avd/hardware-qemu.ini
  emulator: Found AVD target API level: 17
  emulator: 'magic' skin format detected: 480x800
  emulator: autoconfig: -skin 480x800
  emulator: autoconfig: -skindir (null)
  emulator: keyset loaded from: /home/grebulon/.android/default.keyset
  emulator: found magic skin width=480 height=800 bpp=16
  
  emulator: autoconfig: -kernel /opt/sdk/system-images/android-17/armeabi-v7a//kernel-qemu
  emulator: autoconfig: -ramdisk /opt/sdk/add-ons/addon-google_apis-google-17/images/armeabi-v7a//ramdisk.img
  emulator: Using initial system image: /opt/sdk/add-ons/addon-google_apis-google-17/images/armeabi-v7a//system.img
  emulator: autoconfig: -data /home/grebulon/.android/avd/nexus_s.avd/userdata-qemu.img
  emulator: autoconfig: -initdata /home/grebulon/.android/avd/nexus_s.avd/userdata.img
  emulator: autoconfig: -cache /home/grebulon/.android/avd/nexus_s.avd/cache.img
  emulator: Physical RAM size: 343MB
  
  Content of hardware configuration file:
    hw.cpu.arch = arm
    hw.cpu.model = cortex-a8
    hw.ramSize = 343
    hw.screen = touch
    hw.mainKeys = yes
    hw.trackBall = no
    hw.keyboard = no
    hw.keyboard.lid = no
    hw.keyboard.charmap = qwerty2
    hw.dPad = no
    hw.gsmModem = yes
    hw.gps = yes
    hw.battery = no
    hw.accelerometer = yes
    hw.audioInput = yes
    hw.audioOutput = yes
    hw.sdCard = yes
    disk.cachePartition = yes
    disk.cachePartition.path = /home/grebulon/.android/avd/nexus_s.avd/cache.img
    disk.cachePartition.size = 66m
    hw.lcd.width = 480
    hw.lcd.height = 800
    hw.lcd.depth = 16
    hw.lcd.density = 240
    hw.lcd.backlight = yes
    hw.gpu.enabled = yes
    hw.camera.back = none
    hw.camera.front = none
    vm.heapSize = 32
    hw.sensors.proximity = yes
    hw.sensors.magnetic_field = yes
    hw.sensors.orientation = yes
    hw.sensors.temperature = yes
    kernel.path = /opt/sdk/system-images/android-17/armeabi-v7a//kernel-qemu
    kernel.parameters =  android.checkjni=1
    disk.ramdisk.path = /opt/sdk/add-ons/addon-google_apis-google-17/images/armeabi-v7a//ramdisk.img
    disk.systemPartition.initPath = /opt/sdk/add-ons/addon-google_apis-google-17/images/armeabi-v7a//system.img
    disk.systemPartition.size = 200m
    disk.dataPartition.path = /home/grebulon/.android/avd/nexus_s.avd/userdata-qemu.img
    disk.dataPartition.size = 209m
    avd.name = nexus_s
  .
  QEMU options list:
  emulator: argv[00] = "/opt/sdk/tools/emulator64-arm"
  emulator: argv[01] = "-android-hw"
  emulator: argv[02] = "/home/grebulon/.android/avd/nexus_s.avd/hardware-qemu.ini"
  Concatenated QEMU options:
   /opt/sdk/tools/emulator64-arm -android-hw /home/grebulon/.android/avd/nexus_s.avd    /hardware-qemu.ini
  emulator: registered 'boot-properties' qemud service
  emulator: nand_add_dev: system,size=0xc800000,initfile=/opt/sdk/add-ons/addon-google_apis-google-17/images/armeabi-v7a//system.img
  emulator: mapping 'system' NAND image to /tmp/android-grebulon/emulator-RSuUtb
  emulator: rounding devsize up to a full eraseunit, now c810000
  
  emulator: nand_add_dev: userdata,size=0xd100000,file=/home/grebulon/.android/avd/nexus_s.avd/userdata-qemu.img
  emulator: rounding devsize up to a full eraseunit, now d116000
  
  emulator: registered 'boot-properties' qemud service
  emulator: Adding boot property: 'dalvik.vm.heapsize' = '32m'
  emulator: Adding boot property: 'qemu.sf.lcd_density' = '240'
  emulator: Adding boot property: 'qemu.hw.mainkeys' = '1'
  emulator: Adding boot property: 'qemu.sf.fake_camera' = 'none'
  emulator: nand_add_dev: cache,size=0x4200000,file=/home/grebulon/.android/avd/nexus_s.avd/cache.img
  emulator: Initializing hardware OpenGLES emulation support
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)
  </code></pre>