Comment 3 for bug 1509592

It may actually be a very tiny error in your conky.conf file.

I was plagued by this as well and went into the convert.lua (in 15.10, it's at /usr/share/doc/conky-std) to see what was going on. The line above 138 where the configuration file was split in two caught my eye, because the regular expression looked like so:

  ^(.-)TEXT\n(.*)$

And sure enough, when checking my configuration file, there were extra spaces after the word TEXT but before the line break; deleting those allowed conky to process my configuraton file and properly start.

(To be pedantic, the regular expression could be changed to the following to make my old configuration file work:

  ^(.-)TEXT *\n(.*)$

But it'd be just easier to fix the config file. :)