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Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too
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Kernel 5.7.12 - conky and conky-git not working anymore #991

Closed rado84-github closed 3 years ago

rado84-github commented 4 years ago

Issue Today kernel 5.7.12 arrived and conky isn't starting anymore. In the last few months I was using conky-git and it was working fine. I even tried package conky (without -git in the name) but it won't start either.

Information

OS: Arch Linux Conky-git version: 1.11.5.r10.g26d23cb7-1

Here's a system info, though I doubt it would do any good.

$ sysinfo OS: Arch Linux Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.7.12-arch1-1 Uptime: 10m Packages: 1164 Shell: bash Resolution: 1920x1080 DE: Cinnamon 4.6.6 WM: Muffin WM Theme: Mint-Y-Brownish-v4.3_for-Cinnamon_by-Valso (Cinnamox-Rhino) GTK Theme: Mint-Y-Brownish-v4.3_for-Cinnamon_by-Valso [GTK2/3] Icon Theme: Humanity-Dark Font: Noto Sans Bold 10 Disk: 840G / 1,5T (59%) CPU: Intel Core i7-4770 @ 8x 3.9GHz [39.0°C] GPU: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti RAM: 1564MiB / 32034MiB

wright-p commented 4 years ago

After updating my arch system today conky stopped starting, so I tried starting it from a terminal window, and it complained about not being able to find a lua shared object -- maybe the update to arch's lua package is the problem here.

I use my own PKGBUILD that builds from source and recompiling seems to have fixed it for me.

palanthis commented 4 years ago

I ran into this issue on Arch, too. I pulled and installed a previous build of Conky and then it changed from complaining about unexpected symbol to complaining about a Lua library. I checked it on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and the problem exists there, too; So it's not an Arch issue. *Note: The Lua complaint was looking for a 5.3 so, iirc.

All tests done with: http://neoncipher.net/v/conky/conky.conf

Arch (not working) Kernel: 5.7.12-arch1-1 Conky: 1.11.5-4 Lua: 5.4.0-2

OpenSUSE (not working) Kernel: 5.7.11-1-default Conky: 1.11.6-8.5 Lua: 5.1.5-15.6

Edit: I did some additional testing.

Fedora 32 (working) Kernel: 5.7.11-200.fc32.x86_64 Conky: 1.11.6 Lua: 5.3.5

Fedora Rawhide (not working) Kernel: 5.8.0-1.fc33.x86_64 Conky: 1.11.6 Lua: 5.4.0

plikhari commented 4 years ago

I would leave lua as ignore in your package manager config and stay with lua 5.3 till we have a solution. There is not going to be a tearing hurry in the industry to jump on the new 5.4 bandwagon. A simple rebuild with new version may work but then it may not ...

conky for one needs so many things sorted - versions after 1.11.3 are not usable anyways !!!

It would be better those are sorted first ...

rado84-github commented 4 years ago

I would leave lua as ignore in your package manager config and stay with lua 5.3 till we have a solution. There is not going to be a tearing hurry in the industry to jump on the new 5.4 bandwagon. A simple rebuild with new version may work but then it may not ...

conky for one needs so many things sorted - versions after 1.11.3 are not usable anyways !!!

It would be better those are sorted first ...

The downgrade package only shows versions from 5.3.5 and conky is looking probably for 5.3.0. So downgrading lua didn't work and conky's still not working, even with 5.3.5.

Edit: the only thing that actually worked was to restore the whole system from a 5.7.9 backup, add lua to the ignored packages and then do the upgrade.

AlexanderCurl commented 4 years ago

Just install lua53 from the package repository, and done. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/conky-git#comment-759860

palanthis commented 4 years ago

Slapping together a custom set of versions is great for one or two users who go to the trouble of searching and finding this GH issue page. However, I would propose that getting Conky back into a working state with up-to-date dependencies, so that anyone using the above mentioned distros can also use it, would be a good thing.

plikhari commented 4 years ago

OK Here is the solution - simply install lua 5.4 and then recompile conky and install - I recompiled conky to 1.11.3 and it works like a charm.

conky performs as before... fantastic - so technically it is NOT a bug

For Arch Linux - in AUR - conky-cairo

brndnmtthws commented 4 years ago

Pinging @anthraxx

Strykar commented 4 years ago

I use Arch's community conky package, which is working fine after the conky-nv-lua update. Is a rebuild of conky-git all that is required, I'm unclear what the issue with conky-git is that doesn't affect the community package on Arch?

oxhak commented 4 years ago

None of the solutions above are fixing this issue, reinstalled conky, recompiled conky-git, conky-cairo, conky-nv-lua with or without lua53, same results..

oxhak~: conky -c ~/.conky/statusbar2 conky: Syntax error (/home/oxhak/.conky/statusbar2:2: syntax error near 'no') while reading config file. conky: Assuming it's in old syntax and attempting conversion. conky: [string "..."]:159: attempt to call a nil value (global 'loadstring')

wright-p commented 4 years ago

None of the solutions above are fixing this issue, reinstalled conky, recompiled conky-git, conky-cairo, conky-nv-lua with or without lua53, same results..

oxhak~: conky -c ~/.conky/statusbar2 conky: Syntax error (/home/oxhak/.conky/statusbar2:2: syntax error near 'no') while reading config file. conky: Assuming it's in old syntax and attempting conversion. conky: [string "..."]:159: attempt to call a nil value (global 'loadstring')

These seem to be config file issues.

loadstring has been deprecated in lua since version 5.2, it looks like they finally removed compatibility in 5.4. You should use load instead.

oxhak commented 4 years ago

Just tried with the AppImage, works fine with a default config file, not with my config, maybe I should try to rewrite it.

telmotrooper commented 4 years ago

I'm on Arch with packages conky (1.11.5-4) and lua (5.4.0-2) fresh from the repos and none of my configs work, but the default configuration (running command conky without params) works normally.

telmotrooper commented 4 years ago

Okay, this is what worked for me on Arch: download this script (https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/blob/master/extras/convert.lua), make it executable with chmod +x convert.lua and then run it against your configs, e.g. ./convert.lua system_info, then your configs should work fine with updated lua and conky packages.

Conky config

plikhari commented 4 years ago

If you are migrating to conky 1.10.x from an older versions - you will need to fine-tune conky config after using convert.lua.

I have done evrything - install git, version in-between and it all works - you just need to install LUA 5.4 and then compile/build conky again. Arch Linux has AUR where you have various packages from users of Arch Linux - one of my packages is conky-cairo - you may edit the PKGBUILD to any version you desire.

Please feel free to view/edit the PKGBUILD file. It works.

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oxhak commented 4 years ago

Okay, this is what worked for me on Arch: download this script (https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/blob/master/extras/convert.lua), make it executable with chmod +x convert.lua and then run it against your configs, e.g. ./convert.lua system_info, then your configs should work fine with updated lua and conky packages.

Indeed I had tried this but I had made a mistake in the command and it gave me an error, I tried again this morning and now my configuration is correctly converted and everything works as before with the conky package on Archlinux. Thanks everyone.