Computer Locked up playing a wmv file under VLC player 0.9.4

[Ryan Conway]

Computer Locked up playing a wmv file with VLC player 0.9.4 from an e-mail attachment in Evolution

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 245
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.24.0-0ubuntu8.1
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Title: package gnome-power-manager 2.24.0-0ubuntu8.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 245
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic x86_64

[Patrick Kilgore (patrick-kilgore)]

Hello, and thanks for taking the time to report this bug and help make Ubuntu better. Upon inspection of your report, I've decided to file this bug against the package vlc

[Hew (hew)]

There have been a large number of bugfixes with the latest VLC release, 1.0.0~rc2-1ubuntu1. Can you reproduce your issue with this latest version? You can test this in Ubuntu Karmic, or Ubuntu Jaunty with the MOTU Media PPA at https://launchpad.net/~motumedia/+archive/ppa . Thanks in advance.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!