vlc crashes on startup

[SA]

vlc
VLC media player 2.2.4 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.3-37-g888b7e89)
[0000555c58ae4148] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: vlc 2.2.4-4ubuntu0.16.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-41.44-generic 4.8.17
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-41-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Fri Mar 24 21:33:21 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-03 (233 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
JournalErrors:
 Error: command ['journalctl', '-b', '--priority=warning', '--lines=1000'] failed with exit code 1: Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
       Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
       turn off this notice.
 No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2017-01-04 (79 days ago)

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

Please provide a backtrace of the crash. apport should help with that.

[SA (superaorta)]

Apologies for this report - something, somewhere killed my system a few days ago. After a complete re-installation, this (amongst other things) just works. I've marked it as "invalid".