I have checked and this bug does not occur in 0.8.6a and VLC trunk. It might be that in 0.8.4 not having admin rights might have been problematic in setting up the server, causing a crash that was not yet catched back then.
DJ VLC developer -- Segmentation fault when controling VLC via telnet interface https://launchpad.net/bugs/60046 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
