ddd Problems --- Again

I'm a heavy user of ddd, and until today it has been working better than 
ever.  Now all of sudden if I set a breakpoint several levels down, ddd 
hangs.  This has happened before and the only solution that seemed to 
work was to set a breakpoint at an earlier subroutine call then step 
through the call and then continue onto the desired breakpointl.  As 
best I can recall this just started working again and then broke today.  
The problem is still there if I delete ~/.ddd/init.  I did give a look 
into the insight alternative, and it does not work with gentoo packages 
(either for me or for one other gentoo user).  Perhaps someone has an idea?