Comment 30 for bug 668671

(In reply to comment #20)
>...
> pulse, as it does not crash anymore if I uninstall the plugin
> "vlc-plugin-pulse" in ubuntu.
>....

Thanks to your comment I've resolved this issue. I'm on opensuse but removing "vlc-aout-pulse" resolved this type of crash.

Furthermore I've did some testing and:
- reinstalling above vlc pulse package will lead again to crashes
- installing xine pulse package (libxine1-pulse) will cause same crashes on exit even with xine engine

In both scenarios pulseaudio is not activated, just installed.

So it is not vlc backend related, but seems like pulseaudio is the root of problem here for sure.