Comment 8 for bug 1550444

Hello.

Because 'Parole' is a part of an Universe section, it will be - probably - not updated by Developers in Xenial/16.04 (please see rules about updating packages, because I can be wrong). Of course, your method Fixitman Arizona is okay.

By the way: please notice Gimp situation [1]: there are multiple security issues fixed in various Gimp versions and Releases - even in 14.04/Trusty, which is older than Xenial, right? Never mind. I have no idea why there is no security update for Gimp in Xenial.

Anyway, I solved problem with segfaults described by mikewhatever - an original poster by using AppArmor. Because in the past I've created a profile for Gimp, I decided to check what will happen when `mpris2.so` library will be blocked. And it worked!

,----[ AppArmor rule ]
| deny /usr/lib/@{multiarch}/parole-0/parole-mpris2.so mr,
`----

With above rule in use, I can play any supported file/video and as Original Poster wrote: "click or drag the slider to seek forward (...)" and so on.

Thanks, best regards.

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[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/+bug/1773561