Android Studio not opening due to 'internal error'

Question

`Internal error. Please refer to https://code.google.com/p/android/issues

java.lang.AssertionError: Failed to read /Users/arnavgupta/Library/Application Support/Google/AndroidStudio2023.1/updatedBrokenPlugins.db at com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.DefaultLogger.error(DefaultLogger.java:54) at com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.Logger.error(Logger.java:236) at com.intellij.ide.plugins.PluginManagerCore.tryReadBrokenPluginsFile(PluginManagerCore.java:262) at com.intellij.ide.plugins.PluginManagerCore.readBrokenPluginFile(PluginManagerCore.java:215) at com.intellij.ide.plugins.PluginManagerCore.getBrokenPluginVersions(PluginManagerCore.java:205) at com.intellij.ide.plugins.DescriptorListLoadingContext.(DescriptorListLoadingContext.kt:25) at com.intellij.ide.plugins.PluginDescriptorLoader$scheduleLoading$resultDeferred$1.invokeSuspend(PluginDescriptorLoader.kt:381) at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:33) at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:106) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler.runSafely(CoroutineScheduler.kt:570) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.executeTask(CoroutineScheduler.kt:750) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.runWorker(CoroutineScheduler.kt:677) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.run(CoroutineScheduler.kt:664) Suppressed: java.lang.NullPointerException: getEventDispatchThread() must not be null at com.intellij.idea.StartupUtil$startApplication$appDeferred$1$rwLockHolderDeferred$1.invokeSuspend(StartupUtil.kt:231) ... 6 more Caused by: java.io.EOFException at java.base/java.io.DataInputStream.readUnsignedByte(Unknown Source) at com.intellij.ide.plugins.PluginManagerCore.tryReadBrokenPluginsFile(PluginManagerCore.java:235) ... 10 more

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Your JRE: 17.0.7+0-17.0.7b1000.6-10550314 x86_64 (JetBrains s.r.o.) /private/var/folders/93/__vp7b216sqgtpmwxs3p4fgr0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/B8DE6D47-07C5-4C80-844D-288981421511/d/Android Studio.app/Contents/jbr/Contents/Home`

When I opened Android Studio for the very first time after downloading it, it would not open and instead would come up with this error. I do not know what it means and when I tried redownloading the app, the same error came up, what do I do?

Answer 1

from other question delete this file and try again

updatedBrokenPlugins.db

its found under

C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Google\AndroidStudio2022.3

NOTE: its a hidden file make you sure to check show hidden files. in the view tab.

for reference check this answer.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-313198