Has anyone ever had this problem before? I've been using conky for about a month or so, been working fine, i closed down ubuntu 8.10 and went into xp for a bit came back and conky won't run! 
I've changed nothing, no updates etc. Here is the config, that was working fine. Anyone got any ideas?
# UBUNTU-CONKY
# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent no
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes
# fiddle with window
use_spacer yes
use_xft no
# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 3.0
# Minimum size of text area
# minimum_size 250 5
# Draw shades?
draw_shades no
# Text stuff
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders no
font arial
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 3
# border margins
border_margin 9
# border width
border_width 2
# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color white
own_window_colour brown
own_window_transparent yes
# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
#alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
alignment bottom_right
# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 10
gap_y 10
# stuff after ‘TEXT’ will be formatted on screen
TEXT
$color
${color blue}SYSTEM ${hr 2}$color
$nodename $sysname $kernel on $machine
${color blue}CPU ${hr 2}$color
$Uptime$color -- ${time %A} ${time %F} -- Cpu Load:${color white} ${cpu}%
${freq}MHz -- Load: ${loadavg} -- Temp: ${acpitemp}
$cpubar
${cpugraph 000000 ff0000}
${color blue}PROCESSES ${hr 2}$color
NAME PID CPU% MEM%
${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
${color blue}MEMORY / DISK ${hr 2}$color
RAM: $memperc% ${membar 6}$color
Swap: $swapperc% ${swapbar 6}$color
Root: ${fs_free_perc /}% ${fs_bar 6 /}$color
hda1: ${fs_free_perc /media/hda1}% ${fs_bar 6 /media/hda1}$color
hdb3: ${fs_free_perc /media/hdb3}% ${fs_bar 6 /media/hdb3}
${color blue}NETWORK (${addr eth0}) ${hr 2}$color
Down: $color${downspeed eth0} k/s ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${downspeedgraph eth0 25,140 000000 ff0000} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0
25,140 000000 00ff00}$color
Total: ${totaldown eth0} ${alignr}Total: ${totalup eth0}
Inbound: ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count} Outbound: ${tcp_portmon 32768
61000 count}${alignr}Total: ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}
External IP: ${execi 3600 wget -O - http://www.whatismyip.org}
I've changed nothing, no updates etc. Here is the config, that was working fine. Anyone got any ideas?
# UBUNTU-CONKY
# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent no
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes
# fiddle with window
use_spacer yes
use_xft no
# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 3.0
# Minimum size of text area
# minimum_size 250 5
# Draw shades?
draw_shades no
# Text stuff
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders no
font arial
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 3
# border margins
border_margin 9
# border width
border_width 2
# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color white
own_window_colour brown
own_window_transparent yes
# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
#alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
alignment bottom_right
# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 10
gap_y 10
# stuff after ‘TEXT’ will be formatted on screen
TEXT
$color
${color blue}SYSTEM ${hr 2}$color
$nodename $sysname $kernel on $machine
${color blue}CPU ${hr 2}$color
$Uptime$color -- ${time %A} ${time %F} -- Cpu Load:${color white} ${cpu}%
${freq}MHz -- Load: ${loadavg} -- Temp: ${acpitemp}
$cpubar
${cpugraph 000000 ff0000}
${color blue}PROCESSES ${hr 2}$color
NAME PID CPU% MEM%
${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
${color blue}MEMORY / DISK ${hr 2}$color
RAM: $memperc% ${membar 6}$color
Swap: $swapperc% ${swapbar 6}$color
Root: ${fs_free_perc /}% ${fs_bar 6 /}$color
hda1: ${fs_free_perc /media/hda1}% ${fs_bar 6 /media/hda1}$color
hdb3: ${fs_free_perc /media/hdb3}% ${fs_bar 6 /media/hdb3}
${color blue}NETWORK (${addr eth0}) ${hr 2}$color
Down: $color${downspeed eth0} k/s ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${downspeedgraph eth0 25,140 000000 ff0000} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0
25,140 000000 00ff00}$color
Total: ${totaldown eth0} ${alignr}Total: ${totalup eth0}
Inbound: ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count} Outbound: ${tcp_portmon 32768
61000 count}${alignr}Total: ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}
External IP: ${execi 3600 wget -O - http://www.whatismyip.org}
