#autospawn=no

I hope this helps.

Hmm, did you try rebooting?

Yes I did.

This kills pulseaudio, but the cmus is still working

Here below is autospawn.conf

On linux systems, disable autospawn by default
# If you are not using systemd, comment out this line
autospawn=no

# pkill pulseaudio

I don't think it will restart automatically as long as the autospawn line in /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf is commented-out but it might be started by other programs such as Firefox or Chromium.

but it did not stop the pulseaudio.

mp@Kokeilukone-ThinkPad-T420:~$ pgrep -a pulse
2447 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog

We could now try a diagnostic test: disable PulseAudio to see if that breaks cmus again.

To stop PulseAudio from starting run this command as root:

sed -i '/autospawn/s/#//g' /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf

Then log out & back in again, check if PulseAudio is disabled (the pgrep command won't produce any output if PA isn't running) and then try to start cmus.

To re-enable PulseAudio again after the test re-apply the comment to the autospawn line by running this command as root:

sed -i '/autospawn/s/^/#/' /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf

So is PulseAudio running now? Use my pgrep command to find out.

mp@Kokeilukone-ThinkPad-T420:~$ pgrep -a pulse
2329 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog

Yes I think it is.

Maybe it was that pulseaudio

So is PulseAudio running now? Use my pgrep command to find out.

Everything is all good now.

Good to know. But may be developers should know about this problem: an user run the program but get no messages at all.

Maybe it was that pulseaudio.

Thank You for the advices. Everything is all good now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USnRcLF7gUk

There was none output any of your suggestions.

Of the four code blocks in my last post only the pgrep command was expected to produce any output. If it did not produce any output then that means that PulseAudio is not running in your system, in that case the sed command was intended to ensure that PulseAudio was started on the next login which may have got cmus working. Unfortunately the last command string would then have broken it again if you ran that as well. Sorry but I was expecting you to read and attempt to understand my post rather than just running the commands blindly like a child accepting food from a proffered spoon...

So in summary if the pgrep command now produces some output and you have a file at ~/.cmus/rc that contains the string set output_plugin=alsa then you need to delete ~/.cmus/rc then log out & back in again.

For the record the strace command was expected to create a log file called strace.cmus in whichever directory the command was run from.

Perhaps a....

apt install --reinstall cmus

?

I don't know. Sorry.

There was none output any of your suggestions. I am wondering if my terminal is broken?

For MiyoLinux

I have tried several times to run cmus, by typing cmus on a terminal and hitting the enter, no luck.

Have you tried just entering...

cmus

...in the terminal instead of...

x-terminal-emulator -e cmus

?

I only enter...

cmus

...and it works. However, if I enter...

x-terminal-emulator -e cmus

...as you've shown, it opens another terminal window which does nothing, and promptly closes.