Anyone else had this happen to them? Ever since some updates mid-to-early last week, my VLC has been broken. I wanted to make sure it was just me before I start troubleshooting further. I have all the current updates, but this is what I get, even after reinstalling VLC (and deleting ~/.vlc):
evil@pluto:~$ vlc
VLC media player 0.8.6 Janus
***MEMORY-WARNING***: [4612]: GSlice: g_thread_init() must be called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption due to late invocation of g_thread_init() has been detected; this program is likely to crash, leak or unexpectedly abort soon...
*** glibc detected *** vlc: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000000b80c60 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x2b23f0a14050]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x8c)[0x2b23f0a1778c]
/usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0[0x2b2400e20e1e]
/usr/lib/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so(_ZN5wxvlc8MessagesC1EP13int f_thread_tP8wxWindow+0x524)[0x2b23ff9fe4b4]
...
evil@pluto:~$ vlc
VLC media player 0.8.6 Janus
***MEMORY-WARNING***: [4612]: GSlice: g_thread_init() must be called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption due to late invocation of g_thread_init() has been detected; this program is likely to crash, leak or unexpectedly abort soon...
*** glibc detected *** vlc: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000000b80c60 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x2b23f0a14050]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x8c)[0x2b23f0a1778c]
/usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0[0x2b2400e20e1e]
/usr/lib/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so(_ZN5wxvlc8MessagesC1EP13int f_thread_tP8wxWindow+0x524)[0x2b23ff9fe4b4]
...
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