[Bug]: Conky v 1.21.9 conky: cannot kvm_openfiles: /dev/mem: Permission denied

[epsheldoni]

What happened?

Down loaded latest version on NetBSD10.0. Compiles yet after starting it throws the following:

NetBSD-10$ ./conky
conky: desktop window (0x1200028) is subwindow of root window (0x111)
conky: window type - normal
conky: drawing to created window (0x2e00002)
conky: drawing to double buffer
conky: forked to background, pid is 6017
NetBSD-10$
conky: FOUND: x11
conky: FOUND: file
conky: FOUND: ncurses
conky: FOUND: console
conky: cannot kvm_openfiles: /dev/mem: Permission denied
conky: maybe you need to setgid kmem this program?

The last two lines repeat until I kill conky.

Version

1.21.9

Which OS/distro are you seeing the problem on?

Linux (other)

Conky config

conky.config = {
background = true,
use_xft = true,
font = 'Liberation Sans:size=12',
update_interval = 1.0,
total_run_times = 0,
own_window = true,
own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_transparent = true,
own_window_type = normal,
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 100,
own_window_hints = undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,
double_buffer = true,
maximum_width = 280,
draw_shades = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = false,
default_color = 'white',
default_shade_color = 'gray',
default_outline_color = 'gray',
alignment = 'middle_right',
gap_x = 12,
gap_y = 12,
no_buffers = true,
uppercase = false,
top_name_verbose = false,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
override_utf8_locale = false,
color1 = blue,
color2 = gray,
}

--##############################################
--#  Output
--##############################################
conky.text = [[
Conky Version:$alignr {$conky_version}
Host:$alignr $nodename
Kernel:$alignr $kernel
Freq$alignr${freq}MHz
RAM:$alignr $mem/$memmax
Disk usage:$alignr ${fs_used /}/${fs_size /}
Uptime:$alignr $uptime

CPU 0 usage:$alignr ${cpu cpu0}%
CPU 1 usage:$alignr ${cpu cpu1}%
CPU 2 usage:$alignr ${cpu cpu2}%
CPU 3 usage:$alignr ${cpu cpu3}%
CPU 4 usage:$alignr ${cpu cpu4}%
CPU 5 usage:$alignr ${cpu cpu5}%
CPU 6 usage:$alignr ${cpu cpu6}%
CPU 7 usage:$alignr ${cpu cpu7}%

System Load:$alignr   ${loadavg}  
$cpubar
${cpugraph ffffff 000000}
Processes ${hr 1}
${top name 1}${alignr}${top cpu 1}
${top name 2}${alignr}${top cpu 2}
${top name 3}${alignr}${top cpu 3}
${top name 4}${alignr}${top cpu 4}
${top name 5}${alignr}${top cpu 5}
${top name 6}${alignr}${top cpu 6}
${top name 7}${alignr}${top cpu 7}
${top name 8}${alignr}${top cpu 8}
${top name 9}${alignr}${top cpu 9}

Ethernet wm0 ${hr 1}
Down: $color${downspeed wm0} - ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed wm0} -
${downspeedgraph wm0 25,120 CCCCCC 0000FF} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wm0 25,120 000000 00ff00} $color
Total: ${totaldown wm0} ${alignr}Total: ${totalup wm0}

]]

Stack trace

No response

Relevant log output

No response

[epsheldoni]

Also ${cpu cpuN} now shows cpu

[epsheldoni]

I tried compiling by root thinking that this would solve the problem. It did not. conky still throws

conky: cannot kvm_openfiles: /dev/mem: Permission denied
conky: maybe you need to setgid kmem this program?

After correcting ${mem}/${memmax} in .conkyrc the values are shown with a minus sign, e.g. -1.4GiB