bug#27210: 25.2; Recovering loaddefs.el with desktop-mode hangs when linum is on

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 15:29:11 +0100
> From: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>
> 
> With the following init file:
> 
>       (desktop-save-mode 1)
>       (global-linum-mode)
> 
> I visit "/usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/loaddefs.el" and everything is fine.
> I save the desktop session with `desktop-save-in-desktop-dir' and kill
> Emacs.
> 
> On next start, this displays in the terminal
> 
>       Warning: due to a long standing Gtk+ bug
>       http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715
>       Emacs might crash when run in daemon mode and the X11 connection is 
> unexpectedly lost.
>       Using an Emacs configured with --with-x-toolkit=lucid does not have 
> this problem.
>       Note: file is write protected
> 
> and Emacs hangs for minutes at least, possibly forever, becoming a CPU hog. I
> then have to kill Emacs.

Not reproducible here.  I suspect some memory-related issue, similar
to like bug#26952, since this is Arch Linux.

Can you try building the Emacs master branch?  If my guess is correct,
this problem will not exist there.

Thanks.