For those interested, I upgraded my kernel from 2.2.16 to Paul's 2.2.17pre7 and the hangs caused by GDB stopped occurring. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Nathan Ingersoll | Computer Science/Mathematics | | mailto: ningerso@d.umn.edu | University of Minnesota-Duluth | | http://umn.edu/~ningerso | http://www.d.umn.edu | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------