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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:52:56 +0200
From: Kristian Peters <kristian.peters@korseby.net>
To: kladit@t-online.de (Klaus Dittrich)
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Subject: Re: xosview
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kladit@t-online.de (Klaus Dittrich) wrote:
> Since 2.4.18p8 xosview does not work anymore.

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: ");


*Kristian

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