In addition to the XCB patch for PA, it's probably also worth ensuring the XInitThreads call in VLC's modules/audio_output/pulse.c has been removed (it's not present in vlc 1.1.2 but not sure about earlier versions).
In addition to the XCB patch for PA, it's probably also worth ensuring the XInitThreads call in VLC's modules/ audio_output/ pulse.c has been removed (it's not present in vlc 1.1.2 but not sure about earlier versions).