I'm using Arch Linux, and I was able to config ncmpcpp to work about three months ago. However today when I open it and press 2 for the Filesystem Browser it freezes while the CPU seems to be working hard (making loud noise). I can not switch to other tabs including back to 1 (Current Playlist). Same problem occurs for 5 (Playlist editor) and 7 (Output selector)What can possibly caused this and how can I troubleshoot?Things I tried but didn't help:Changing the music directory to a much smaller one with about 10 songs and no sub directoriesRenaming file database to data.old in the hope ncmpcpp will recreate the databaseInspecting file log in $HOME/.config/mpd - it has no record since three months ago.Restarting mpd.serviceUpdate mpd and ncmpcpp to the latest version (0.20.4 and 0.7.7 respectively)Thanks in advance.
ncmpcpp freezes at 2 Filesystem browser, 5 Playlist editor and 7 Output selector
linux;arch linux;freeze;mpd
It turned out the reason it freezes is because I enabled mpd.service globally, which presumably reads the default root configuration /etc/mpd.conf and causes the freezing. Why would root configuration be a problem? I don't know.Instead I excute systemctl --user mpd.service and it works again.See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mpd#Autostart_with_systemdThree months ago it worked because I started mpd directly by typing mpd in command line when I logged in as a user.