top has been failing for a week or so on my ss20 box running 2.4.22 compiled single cpu. Error message is "top: failed /proc/stat read" strace top yields (last few lines) open("/proc/stat" ... = 5 fstat64(5, ...) = 0 mmmap( _llseek( read(5, ...) = 243 write(1, "..." = 317 ioctl(0, write(1, ... write(2, ... error message cat /proc/stat writes out 9 lines of information