VLC media player fails to launch, fbosd interface error?

What is the output of :

lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy vlc

Thanks

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10
Codename: saucy
Linux mark-OptiPlex-745 3.11.0-18-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 18 21:11:14 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
vlc:
  Installed: 2.0.8-1
  Candidate: 2.0.8+git20140305+r49188+13+8~ubuntu13.10.1
  Version table:
     2.0.8+git20140305+r49188+13+8~ubuntu13.10.1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/videolan/stable-daily/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages
 *** 2.0.8-1 0
        500 http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/ saucy/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://ubuntu.mirror.uber.com.au/archive/ saucy/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Then I suggest you contact the PPA maintainer to report the issue. Alternatively you can use ppa-purge to roll back to the vlc from the official Ubuntu repo which is tested and known to work with Ubuntu.

Removed ppa, still no go. as per output below
(I originally installed ppa in the hope that its installation would 'fix' the problem which already existed)

PPA to be removed: videolan stable-daily
Package revert list generated:
 libvlc5/saucy libvlccore5/saucy vlc/saucy vlc-data/saucy vlc-nox/saucy
vlc-plugin-notify/saucy vlc-plugin-pulse/saucy

Disabling videolan PPA from
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/videolan-stable-daily-saucy.list
Updating packages lists
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libvlc5 is already the newest version.
libvlccore5 is already the newest version.
vlc is already the newest version.
vlc-data is already the newest version.
vlc-nox is already the newest version.
vlc-plugin-notify is already the newest version.
vlc-plugin-pulse is already the newest version.
Selected version '2.0.8-1' (Ubuntu:13.10/saucy [amd64]) for 'libvlc5'
Selected version '2.0.8-1' (Ubuntu:13.10/saucy [amd64]) for 'libvlccore5'
Selected version '2.0.8-1' (Ubuntu:13.10/saucy [amd64]) for 'vlc'
Selected version '2.0.8-1' (Ubuntu:13.10/saucy [all]) for 'vlc-data'
Selected version '2.0.8-1' (Ubuntu:13.10/saucy [amd64]) for 'vlc-nox'
Selected version '2.0.8-1' (Ubuntu:13.10/saucy [amd64]) for 'vlc-plugin-notify'
Selected version '2.0.8-1' (Ubuntu:13.10/saucy [amd64]) for 'vlc-plugin-pulse'
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
PPA purged successfully
mark@mark-OptiPlex-745:~$ vlc
VLC media player 2.0.8 Twoflower (revision 2.0.8a-0-g68cf50b)
[0x8c9d48] fbosd interface error: cannot open /dev/fb0 (Permission denied)
[0x8c9d48] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x68b108] main libvlc error: interface "default" initialization failed

ok, I simply deleted the user config file (: $(HOME)/.config/vlc/vlcrc )and restarted. Works now thanks