Subject: Re: bug#6579: 23.2; (require 'dbus) without dbus being available makes Emacs unresponsive, maxing out CPU and eating memory

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:28:28 +0200

David Engster <[email-masked]> writes:

> This was observed on GNU/Linux (Archlinux), but I also witnessed this
> under OS X.
>
> * Stop dbus or do not start it in the first place.
>
> * emacs -Q
>
> * evaluate (require 'dbus) in the scratch buffer
>
> Emacs now consumes 100% CPU and is quickly eating memory until there is
> no more. Pressing C-g (or any other key) doesn't have any effect.

Reproduced. I'll work on this next days.

Best regards, Michael.