VLC is driving me crazy

[andreaconsole]

After uninstalling and reinstaling, purging etc, I still can't make VLC work on my fresh kubuntu 16.04 installation.
During the installation, I found myself in this situation:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/74499...-ubuntu-15-10/
But the suggested solution didn't help.

This is the error I get now when I try to launch VLC. I couldn't find any explanation about it in internet:

andrea@mypc:~$ vlc
VLC media player 2.2.2 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.2-0-g6259d80)
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/x86_64/dl-machine.h: 517: elf_machine_rela_relative: Assertion `ELFW(R_TYPE) (reloc->r_info) == R_X86_64_RELATIVE' failed!

I even tried to use other players (Dragon, Videos), but it seems that nothing is working anymore.
What is the problem?
Thanks

[GreyGeek]

VLC gives me this when I run it from a Konsole:

jerry@jerry-Aspire-7739:~$ vlcVLC media player 2.2.2 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.2-0-g6259d80)
[0000000000937148] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.

but it runs well.

I found only 58 references on the Internet about your problem but all of them were one to fourteen years old and related only to patches of libc.

jerry@jerry-Aspire-7739:~/Videos$ cvlc Apollo_500_fps.mp4
also shows the video.

[dibl]

I don't believe it is a VLC-specific problem. Google

elf_machine_rela_relative: Assertion

and you find many hits including

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1888404

I haven't read enough of them to see an obvious solution for your situation, but I would encourage to read as many as you can and see if you can find a common thread that is relevant to your system.

[andreaconsole]

Thank you friends, it seems something related with a corrupted installation or a faulty hard disk. Which kind of test can I do? Is it possible to avoid a complete re-installation?

[dequire]

You can install TestDisk from the standard repositories, which will do a check. What may be a better option, however, would be to download SystemRescueCD and burn the image to a CD/DVD/USB Drive and run as a live session. It comes with TestDisk installed. TestDisk will also automatically repair any errors or bad sectors it finds, if that's possible to do so.

EDIT: You can also follow this guide to do a quick check of your disks to determine if further investigation is needed.