$ gdb vlc
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/vlc...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) r -vvv
Starting program: /usr/bin/vlc -vvv
warning: no loadable sections found in added symbol-file system-supplied DSO at 0x7ffff7ffa000
warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso.so.1.
Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
VLC media player 2.0.6 Twoflower (revision 2.0.6-0-gbe9623c)
[0x604138] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - 2.0.6 Twoflower
[0x604138] main libvlc debug: Copyright © 1996-2013 VLC authors and VideoLAN
[0x604138] main libvlc debug: revision 2.0.6-0-gbe9623c
[0x604138] main libvlc debug: configured with ./configure  '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--disable-rpath' '--enable-oss' '--enable-faad' '--enable-nls' '--enable-lirc' '--enable-pvr' '--enable-ncurses' '--enable-realrtsp' '--enable-xosd' '--enable-aa' '--enable-vcdx' '--enable-upnp' '--enable-opus' '--enable-sftp' 'LUAC=luac5.1' 'RCC=/usr/bin/rcc-qt4' 'CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/samba-4.0' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/samba-4.0' 'CXXFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4'
[0x604138] main libvlc debug: searching plug-in modules
[0x604138] main libvlc debug: loading plugins cache file /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat
[0x604138] main libvlc warning: cannot read /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat (No such file or directory)
[0x604138] main libvlc debug: recursively browsing `/usr/lib/vlc/plugins'

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff71fd2d6 in __strcmp_ssse3 () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff71fd2d6 in __strcmp_ssse3 () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x00007ffff5cb66f9 in g_str_equal () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#2  0x00007ffff5cb5e20 in g_hash_table_lookup () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3  0x00007ffff5cd59f0 in g_intern_static_string () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4  0x00007fffed4cac64 in g_type_plugin_get_type () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#5  0x00007fffed4a28d0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#6  0x00007ffff7de9a9a in call_init () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#7  0x00007ffff7de9b6c in _dl_init_internal () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#8  0x00007ffff7dedbd5 in dl_open_worker () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#9  0x00007ffff7de9914 in _dl_catch_error () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#10 0x00007ffff7ded44b in _dl_open () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#11 0x00007ffff748502b in ?? () from /usr/lib/libdl.so.2
#12 0x00007ffff7de9914 in _dl_catch_error () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#13 0x00007ffff74855dd in ?? () from /usr/lib/libdl.so.2
#14 0x00007ffff74850c1 in dlopen () from /usr/lib/libdl.so.2
#15 0x00007ffff796a482 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.5
#16 0x00007ffff794bafb in ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.5
#17 0x00007ffff794b995 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.5
#18 0x00007ffff794b854 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.5
#19 0x00007ffff794b889 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.5
#20 0x00007ffff794b540 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.5
#21 0x00007ffff794b358 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.5
#22 0x00007ffff794b0e4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.5
#23 0x00007ffff78c1e8f in libvlc_InternalInit () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.5
#24 0x00007ffff7bc5f3e in libvlc_new () from /usr/lib/libvlc.so.5
#25 0x0000000000401451 in ?? ()
#26 0x00007ffff70f8a15 in __libc_start_main () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#27 0x000000000040104d in ?? ()
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