Android Emulator does not start after Arctic Fox upgrade, libvulkan.so: failed

Trying to start an emulator in Android Studio gives me the following error:

The emulator process for AVD Pixel_4_API_30_-_GooglePlay has terminated.

I get the following errors logged in Android Studio logs:

2021-08-11 13:38:19,827 [ 290921]   INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: /home/werner/Android/Sdk/emulator/emulator -netdelay none -netspeed full -no-snapshot-load -avd Pixel_4_API_30_-_GooglePlay 
2021-08-11 13:38:19,885 [ 290979]   INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: handleCpuAcceleration: feature check for hvf 
2021-08-11 13:38:19,927 [ 291021]   INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: cannot add library /home/werner/Android/Sdk/emulator/qemu/linux-x86_64/lib64/vulkan/libvulkan.so: failed 
2021-08-11 13:38:19,933 [ 291027]   INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: added library /home/werner/Android/Sdk/emulator/lib64/vulkan/libvulkan.so 
2021-08-11 13:38:20,091 [ 291185]   INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: Process finished with exit code 139 (interrupted by signal 11: SIGSEGV) 
2021-08-11 13:38:20,091 [ 291185]   WARN - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator terminated with exit code 139 

The error boils down to:

cannot add library /home/werner/Android/Sdk/emulator/qemu/linux-x86_64/lib64/vulkan/libvulkan.so: failed

This is under Ubuntu 20.04 with Android Studio 2020.03.1 and the emulator plugin version 30.7.5.0.

What I've seen/tried:

• I have already tried creating a new emulator, but the same issue occurs.
• This question is similar but the solution is for macOS
• Another answer suggesting uninstallation and reinstallation of the Emulator plugin also didn't work for me
• This answer suggests another config, which also leads to a segmentation fault (handleCpuAcceleration: feature check for hvf [1] 1694643 segmentation fault (core dumped), but no Vulkan-related error messages

When I run the emulator with -gpu guest, everything works fine.

This means that when I manually change the file ~/.android/avd/Pixel_4_API_30_-_GooglePlay.avd/config.ini to set hw.gpu.mode from auto to guest, it runs fine. I consider this a workaround and not a real solution, as HW rendering will not not work anymore, and with SW rendering, the System UI of the emulator keeps crashing every couple of seconds.

The issue was solved by updating the system packages via:

sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade

In my case, it was installing the latest version of mesa-vulkan-drivers that probably fixed the issue. I hadn't upgraded my system in a while.