Conky closes after 5 sec

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#1

Since last week i have a problem with conky. From console it starts without problems and all looks good. All values are there and the conky insert looks good.
But after 5 sec it simply closes, means the process in htop get grayed out and disappears a second later. No errors, nothing on the console.
This only happens on my desktop with amdgpu kernel driver, not on my laptop with intel driver. Before it was running well for years.
Both machines running full updated Leap 15.0.
What to do?

#2

Hi
What ‘own_window’ options do you have set in your conky configuration?

#3

From conkyrc:

-- Use Xft?    use_xft = true,
    font = 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=9',
    xftalpha = 0.8,
    override_utf8_locale = true,
    short_units = true,


    update_interval = 5,
    total_run_times = 0,


    own_window = true,
    own_window_type = 'normal',
    own_window_transparent = true,
    own_window_class = 'Conky',
    own_window_argb_visual = true,
    own_window_colour = '#082103',
    own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',


    double_buffer = true,
    minimum_width = 320, minimum_height = 5,
    maximum_width = 320,
    max_text_width = 0,

No changes were made to the system before the issue appeared, only the suse updates.
With the older kernel, the problem is the same.

Console with starting conky:

vos@linux-t0qs:~> conky
conky: desktop window (2200012) is subwindow of root window (647)
conky: window type - normal
conky: drawing to created window (0x3600002)
conky: drawing to double buffer
conky: forked to background, pid is 2988
vos@linux-t0qs:~>
#4

Hi
Likely some graphics update… I use the following (your issue sounds similar to one I had a number of years back…);


conky.config = {
   own_window = true,
   own_window_type = 'normal',
   own_window_transparent = false,
   own_window_hints = 'undecorated,sticky,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
   own_window_colour = 'black',
   own_window_class = 'Conky',
   own_window_title = 'Environment',
   own_window_argb_visual = true,
   own_window_argb_value = 0,
   double_buffer = true,
   background = true,
   draw_borders = false,
   draw_outline = false,
   minimum_width = 320, minimum_height = 5,
   maximum_width = 320,
   gap_x = 1470,
   gap_y = 20,
   font = 'Cantarell:size=10',
   default_color = '#DCDCDC',
   color0 = '#1793d0',
   color2 = 'green',
   color3 = '#FFFF00',
   color4 = '#FF6400',
   color5 = '#FF0000',
   use_xft = true,
   xftalpha = 0.8,
   override_utf8_locale = true,
   draw_shades = false,
   default_shade_color = 'black',
   draw_outline = false,
   uppercase = false
}

This is working fine with Leap 15.0 and amdgpu driver… I would suggest adding the hints and argb bits to start with and see how that goes.

#5

Thanks for your hint. I replaced the part from my conkyrc with yours. No difference. Still closing.

Then i copied conkyrc to my root account and starting there as root. Same game. So no permission problem.
Tried all renderer in KDE as user. You guess it, nothing. Already tried older kernel, so no amdgpu problem.

Gotcha *****! Sorry.

The culprit is that line:

${color9}${cpugraph 3dba19 aecf4c -t -l}

I comment it out …SUCCESS. It’s working again.

No idea what has changed 1-2 weeks ago. It was working well for years…AND…it is still working with laptop Intel driver and ubuntu.