i em having trouble setting up my dzen status bar, it works but once i try to pass it font settings or -fn -bg -fg or -h it crashes the weird thing is i can

pass it -p -ta -y -x and it works, also  i have a dzenbar being piped conky output and it can take all the arguments without crashing in the command line i get

stack smashing detected ***: dzen2 terminated

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<file descriptor: 7>: commitBuffer: resource vanished (Broken pipe)

but only the status bar crashes the conky | dzen pipe works fine