I decided to do a complete reinstall, downloading a new copy of the Xubuntu image, checking its signature, making a new bootable flash drive, verifying its integrity.
While the second clean install did eliminate a couple of other weird issues, the error with conky is still present for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1509592 Title: Error using conky.conf To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/conky/+bug/1509592/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs