remote debugging: "Reply contains invalid hex digit 59"

["Bryan Althouse" <bryan.althouse@3phoenix.com>]

Is anyone doing remote debugging for mips?  

I start the gdbserver on mips with:  
    gdbserver 192.168.2.39:2222 ./hello_loop
This produces:
    Process ./hello_loop created; pid = 158

On my PC, I type:
    ddd --debugger mips64-linux-gnu-gdb hello_loop
    (at gdb prompt) target remote 192.168.2.55:2222

This produces:
    (on gdb prompt) Couldn't establish connection to remote target
     Reply contains invalid hex digit 59
    (on mips) Remote debugging from host 192.168.2.39
     Readchar: Got EOF
     Remote side has terminated connection.  GDBserver will reopen the
connection. 

This problem is also described here:
http://mailman.uclinux.org/pipermail/uclinux-dev/2004-April/025421.html

Any ideas?  Thanks!

Bryan