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#1 2016-05-19 08:27:35

vulcun
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Unable to launch Conky

Hey Folks,

I'm new to Linux and jumped in at the deep end with Arch. I am an experienced IT professional but Linux is pretty much all new to me.

I've got myself up and running with XFCE4 and have customized it to my liking but I want to investigate Conky. I've installed Conky but when attempting to load conky from the terminal I receive the below output:

conky: no personal or system-wide config file found, using builtin default
conky: desktop window (1200003) is subwindow of root window (281)
conky: window type - desktop
conky: drawing to created window (0x2200001)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

If it makes any difference this is Arch running on Virtualbox.

Thanks for any help you might have!

Last edited by vulcun (2016-05-19 08:29:09)

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#2 2016-05-19 08:44:06

ninian
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Re: Unable to launch Conky

Have a look at: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=212158
Maybe need to downgrade to avoid problem.

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#3 2016-05-19 08:45:12

jasonwryan
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Re: Unable to launch Conky

What version of conky are you running? Either the current or previous one has a known bug: there are a couple of threads here about it.


Arch + dwm   •   Mercurial repos  •   Surfraw

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#4 2016-05-19 08:48:34

vulcun
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Re: Unable to launch Conky

Thanks for the replied. I am running the latest as of this morning. I'm not sure how to download an older version. Could you folks help with the commands/process I will need to follow?

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#5 2016-05-19 08:50:52

jasonwryan
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Re: Unable to launch Conky


Arch + dwm   •   Mercurial repos  •   Surfraw

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#6 2016-05-19 09:08:41

vulcun
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Re: Unable to launch Conky

Thank you Jason. I've downloaded the package from that website. Upon reading about downgrading I believe I need to use pacman -U and specify the package however I am obtaining the error:

sudo pacman -U conky-1.10.0-3-i686.pkg.tar.xz
loading packages...
warning: downgrading package conky (1.10.2-1 => 1.10.0-3)
error: failed to prepare transaction (package architecture is not valid)
:: package conky-1.10.0-3-i686 does not have a valid architecture

EDIT: Nevermind I downloaded the wrong package. Seems to have downgraded.

EDIT2:

I now recieve the error:

conky: error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Last edited by vulcun (2016-05-19 09:13:01)

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#7 2016-05-19 09:20:40

satanselbow
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Re: Unable to launch Conky

You are likely using a 64 bit installation but are trying to install the 32 bit package - you can check your bitness(?) with:

uname -m

which will likely reply with x86_64 so you need conky-1.10.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

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#8 2016-05-19 09:23:54

vulcun
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Re: Unable to launch Conky

Yup I figured that bit out and edited my post. Could you look at the error I have now in my second edit? Thanks!

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