Andrea, after more testing I think this query is solved as described below.  Please let me know for sure.  ...Phyllis

"1- when I enable lv2 plugins, cinelerra never loads up on me.
I tested with AppImage also, and it too should print to the terminal as long as you started the AppImage from a window any problems with lv2 plugins so you can tell if one is in error and handle that by removing it.
 
2- is background rendering and render farm in CLI mode works now, when
Cinelerra-GG is distributed as AppImage?"

I actually can't do background rendering from the terminal; I get a
loop of LV2 loading and CinGG won't start. Do you know how to do it?
In my test of batch render, this also works; for example:  ./cin-x86.AppImage -r  mybatchrender.rc