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[Bug]: Gracefully handle hardware changes while running

Open icf20 opened this issue 6 months ago • 1 comments

What happened?

Apparently when AMD 9950X enters in "boost mode" and goes from 16 cores to 8 conky crashes

nothing special just that

Version

conky 1.22.2

Which OS/distro are you seeing the problem on?

Arch Linux

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icf20 avatar Aug 12 '25 17:08 icf20

60% of conky code crashes if one modifies hardware while it's running. While keeping your initial point as primary target of the issue, I'll repurpose it towards handling HW changes more gracefully in general. Thankfully, there's still not that many in a computer :)

Caellian avatar Aug 28 '25 20:08 Caellian