That's a known problem. xosview tries to access /proc/stat that has a wierd format and a buffer goes beyond 1024 in xosview. I was also effected on this problem. It's been fixed in the next version of 2.4.19 (probably -rc1). In the meantime you can apply this patch:
diff -ur linux-2.4.19-pre9.org/fs/proc/proc_misc.c linux-2.4.19-pre9/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
--- linux-2.4.19-pre9.org/fs/proc/proc_misc.c Wed May 29 01:26:17 2002
+++ linux-2.4.19-pre9/fs/proc/proc_misc.c Thu May 30 03:09:07 2002
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@
#if !defined(CONFIG_ARCH_S390)
for (i = 0 ; i < NR_IRQS ; i++)
proc_sprintf(page, &off, &len,
- " %u", kstat_irqs(i) + 1000000000);
+ " %u", kstat_irqs(i));
#endif
proc_sprintf(page, &off, &len, "\ndisk_io: ");
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