VLC doesn't start on oneiric

Bug #846601 reported by kao_chen
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Bug Description

I started VLC with that simple command:

kao@kao-mav:~$ vlc
VLC media player 1.1.11 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0x8b9692c] main libvlc: Lancement de vlc avec l'interface par défaut. Utilisez « cvlc » pour démarrer VLC sans interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")

(process:29107): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
 Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")

(vlc:29107): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_style_get: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(vlc:29107): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_style_get: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(vlc:29107): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_style_get: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(vlc:29107): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_style_get: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(vlc:29107): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_style_get: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(vlc:29107): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_style_get: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(vlc:29107): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_style_get: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

And errors stop appearing only when I kill my terminal.

All my packages are up to date.

I can provide more information.
Thanks

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: vlc 1.1.11-2build2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 10 20:39:19 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-01 (8 days ago)

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kao_chen (kaochen2) wrote :
Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Vinod Khare (vinod-khare) wrote :

Possibly related: same error is generated on running calibre which too is a Qt application.

(python2.7:3735): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_style_get: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 805303, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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