Attempting to run conky without double buffer results in the same IO error:
tc@box:~$ conky
Conky: desktop window (3a) is root window
Conky: drawing to desktop window
Conky: drawing to single buffer
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
after 146 requests (146 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
Here's my conkyrc if it helps. Pretty basic, ran perfectly fine under the old Xvesa.
# Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo
#
# Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license
#
# All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL
#
# Please see COPYING for details
#
# Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen
# Copyright (c) 2005-2010 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. (see AUTHORS)
# All rights reserved.
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
alignment top_right
#background no
#border_width 1
#cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color grey
#default_outline_color white
#default_shade_color white
#draw_borders yes
#draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
use_xft yes
xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12
gap_x 1
gap_y 1
minimum_size 5 5
#net_avg_samples 2
#no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
extra_newline no
#own_window yes
#own_window_class Conky
own_window_type desktop
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 1.5
#double_buffer yes
uppercase no
use_spacer none
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no
TEXT
CPU $cpu% RAM $memperc% Swap $swapperc%
Uptime $uptime
$acpitemp C
$sysname $kernel $machine
My system is up to date, running latest conky, Xvesa and TC6.1rc1.
Latest what? You want me retry after upgrading to rc2?