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Bingo!

I upgraded wxGTK from 2.6.1 to 2.6.2 and vlc GUI works again.
Both tested with vlc-0.8.4-test1 and vlc-0.8.2.

You might want to read this mailing list post that seems to be relevant:

http://www.mail-archive.com/pld-devel-p ... 03385.html

It seems to me that the problem is with wxGTK and not with vlc itself...

What I could find out so far is that the symbol that it's missing "pango_x_get_context" is a main method from the old Pango X font backend which is now deprecated in favor of Xft. Maybe in the new version of pango that came with GNOME 2.12 they removed that interface completely? The Pango ...

Hello! I've upgraded my system from GNOME 2.10 to GNOME 2.12. This implied some library changes, including glib, gtk+, pango etc. and wxGTK from 2.4.x to 2.6.x as well. Then vlc suddenly could not start its GUI which means it is now rather unusable: $ vlc -vvv VLC media player 0.8.4-test1 Janus [000...