I had the same problem since my upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy. I moved the ~/.vlc directory, relaunched VLC and everything worked fine.
Previously I had this error :
~~
VLC media player 0.8.6c Janus
** (.:13946): CRITICAL **: clearlooks_style_draw_focus: assertion `height >= -1' failed
[00000299] main private error: option glx-shm does not exist
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 31 ()
Serial number of failed request: 49
Current serial number in output stream: 50
~~
I had the same problem since my upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy. I moved the ~/.vlc directory, relaunched VLC and everything worked fine.
Previously I had this error :
~~
VLC media player 0.8.6c Janus
** (.:13946): CRITICAL **: clearlooks_ style_draw_ focus: assertion `height >= -1' failed
[00000299] main private error: option glx-shm does not exist
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 31 ()
Serial number of failed request: 49
Current serial number in output stream: 50
~~