gdb crashes my machines....

[Ronald E. Hatcher]

Hello: I'm having serious troubles on some old Suns I'm trying to mess
around with.
I've installed GNU/Debian Linux 2.2r3 (potato) and can't seem to get gdb
to work.
It seriously hoses any machines whenever I try to use it to debug even
the tinyest
program compiled with g77. Here is some configuration info

Linux Mingus 2.2.19 #1 Mon Apr 2 13:29:46 EDT 2001 sparc unknown
Fri Oct 12 14:19:56 EDT 2001

Hardware Info:
'SUNW,Sun 4/50'
cpu             : Fujitsu or Weitek Power-UP
fpu             : Fujitsu or Weitek on-chip FPU
BogoMips        : 39.83
             total       used       free     shared    buffers
cached
Mem:         62964      51708      11256      30804       8808
26092
Swap:        50896          0      50896
Total:      113860      51708      62152
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
  Vendor: QUANTUM  Model: FIREBALL ST2.1S  Rev: 0F0C

Now it is true that all of these machines have the Weitek Power-UP chip
installed.
Does this make a difference? I need to be able to run Fortran on these
machines
for them to be at all useful for me. Can anyone offer any suggestions?

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TIA

R