ddd hangs on start

Question

When I start ddd, it seems hang waiting for gdb. Here is the tail end of output ddd --trace:

#  Saving session in "/home/kbrandt/.ddd/sessions/106d7eb3d567f23b01125736049734486400000041300582/init"...
#  Saving session in "/home/kbrandt/.ddd/sessions/106d7eb3d567f23b01125736049734486400000041300582/init"...done.
2009.11.04 13:48:17
<- "(gdb)  "

This doesn't happen if I pick a different debugger like --perl. I read about adding set prompt (gdb) to ~/.gdbinit (space at end), but that doesn't fix it. gdb starts fine on its own. Anyone know what this might be?

Answer 1

I had the following in my inputrc, removing it fixed it:

\C-j": "|less\C-m

...shrug.

Answer 2

I've run into this issue and other similar ones with ddd hanging on startup. Each has been fixed by removing ~/.ddd/init

rm ~/.ddd/init

Answer 3

remove ~/.ddd by using command

sudo rm -rf ~/.ddd