conky crashes on login

[Kradziej]

Binary package hint: conky

Conky crashes on startup but then its no problem to run conky
From xsession-errors:

Conky: desktop window (400009) is subwindow of root window (13c)
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x2c00001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
gnome-session[14678]: WARNING: Could not launch application 'wallpaper-tray.desktop': Unable to start application: Nie można wykonać procesu potomnego "wallpaper-tray" (No such file or directory)

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:14907): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `_PolkitError'

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:14907): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

(nautilus:14872): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
17
Starting gtk-window-decorator
warning :  (cairo-dock-modules.c:cairo_dock_preload_module_from_directory:376) 
  while opening module '/usr/lib/cairo-dock/libcd_xfce-integration.so' : (libthunar-vfs-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
gtk_widget_get_gl_context: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

** (nautilus:14872): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'UploadFinished'

** (nautilus:14872): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'DownloadFinished'

** (nautilus:14872): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'ShareCreateError'
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
OpenGL version: 3.0.0 NVIDIA 185.18.36
OpenGL vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer: GeForce 8600 GTS/PCI/SSE2
inotify_add_watch: No such file or directory
** (gnome-panel:14868): DEBUG: Adding applet 2.
** (gnome-panel:14868): DEBUG: Adding applet 3.
** (gnome-panel:14868): DEBUG: Adding applet 4.
** (gnome-panel:14868): DEBUG: Adding applet 5.
** (gnome-panel:14868): DEBUG: Adding applet 6.
/usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py:823: GtkWarning: gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only: assertion `private->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed
  mainloop.run()
/usr/bin/compiz.real (cube) - Warn: Failed to load slide: /usr/share/gdm/themes/Human/ubuntu.png
if your drivers are crappy, we'll know it immediately ... ok, they seem fine enough.
warning :  (cairo-dock-config.c:cairo_dock_get_double_key_value:182) 
  Plik klucza nie zawiera klucza "scroll speed"
warning :  (cairo-dock-config.c:cairo_dock_get_double_key_value:182) 
  Plik klucza nie zawiera klucza "scroll accel"
cairo_dock_replace_values_in_conf_file (/home/bartek/.config/cairo-dock/current_theme/plug-ins/rendering/rendering.conf)
cairo_dock_refresh_launcher_gui ()
Conky: X Error: type 0 Display 9c1a788 XID 46137350 serial 1120 error_code 177 request_code 156 minor_code 3 other Display: 9c1a788

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 3 22:11:36 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: conky 1.7.2-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pl_PL.UTF-8
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: conky
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:14778): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:14907): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:14872): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (nautilus:15014): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Can you type these commands in a shell and report here the outputs:

apt-cache policy conky
apt-cache policy conky-all
conky -v

I assume you launch conky with a script and some amount of delay already?
If so, does increasing the delay solve your problem?
If not try with this script:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 60 && conky;

Play with the delay (60 can be too much or not enough, depending on your system) until you get an acceptable result.

[Kradziej (kradziej666)]

I`m using delay currenty, no other way to run conky on startup. "Sleep 5" is enough to initiate without crash.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Thx, closing then. Note that starting from the next release it will be possible to avoid using an external script to launch conky. It will be enough to use the command line option -p/--pause.