One of the Videolan developers, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, created a patch which resolves this issue. The contents of the patch can be found at [1]. I've attached a debdiff against Jaunty's current 0.9.9a-2ubuntu1. Again, all credits to Jean-Baptiste Kempf.
[1] http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/f9f2d307e707a510cb93d2ac20f0a87ba5895ace ** Attachment added: "vlc-upstream-patch.diff" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25797016/vlc-upstream-patch.diff ** Changed in: vlc (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- vlc crashes with SIGABRT at startup or when "Show Playlist" is clicked https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/342332 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs