I had the same problem since my upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy. I moved the ~/.vlc directory, relaunched VLC and everything worked fine.
Previously I had this error : ~~ VLC media player 0.8.6c Janus ** (.:13946): CRITICAL **: clearlooks_style_draw_focus: assertion `height >= -1' failed [00000299] main private error: option glx-shm does not exist X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 31 () Serial number of failed request: 49 Current serial number in output stream: 50 ~~ -- vlc crashes when trying to play a movie https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67605 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
