I am also having a "vlc not running" problem. After several rounds of possibly making it worse, I gave up at the point detailed below Linux LittleSister 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 22 17:22:40 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Not listed: I am running Kubuntu 8.10 with KDE 4.2 installed. VLC me...