i also need vlc 0.8.6c on my Ubuntu 6.06 Server becaue 0.8.6a hungs after a stream was stopped.
my target system is a Dreambox DM7000 and it works well with Ubuntu 7.10 with vlc 0.8.6c and also with the windows version 0.8.6c
so i think, there is a bug in 8.0.6a