Thanks for looking into it. The problem was most likely an incompatibility between emacs 24.5.1 and org 9.2.6. I upgraded emacs and it went away.

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 2:13 AM Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
Hi Ian,

> Running org-map-entries on an org file with tags results in an infinite
> loop.

FWIW, I cannot reproduce this.

> Example function using org-map-entries:
>
>     (defun org-map-entries-test ()
>       (interactive)
>       (org-map-entries '(lambda () (message "%s" (org-entry-properties
> (point) 'standard))))
>       (message "done"))
>
> Example org file:
>
>     * one
>     * two
>     * three
>  :noexport:

The above exemple is not a valid org file, the tag should be on the
same line than the headline... but perhaps that's just because your
email was sent as HTML.

Thanks,

--
 Bastien