Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for the advice Nicolas. Today I tried to
reproduce it with the same file and couldn't. However, I have hit the bug
(whatever it is) without org-log-done 'time, so I guess that was a red
herring. I'll keep an eye on it.

Ethan



On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Ethan <ethan.glasser.camp@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm running org-mode from git (version "8.3beta"), and recently I started
> > to get hangs in org files.
>
> First ensure you're using the latest Org revision. A lot of changes
> happened between "release_8.3beta" tag and HEAD.
>
> > The bug has been tricky to track down. I can reproduce it reliably in one
> > particular file by switching DONE to TODO on one particular heading.
> > Changing DONE to TODO on another nearby heading doesn't seem to cause the
> > problem. For this reason, I don't have a minimal example.
> >
> > It doesn't happen in org-mode in stock emacs. It also doesn't happen,
> even
> > with org-mode from git, if I disable my '(org-log-done 'time)
> > customization. I managed to get a backtrace using gdb (attached). I can
> > provide (off-list) the .org file that I used to induce the failure.
>
> If you can reproduce the problem with an up-to-date Org, I'm interested
> in the org file. You can also consider calling the function below first
>
>   (defun ngz-scramble-contents ()
>     "Copy current buffer, preserving structure but not contents.
>   The copy is done in \"*Scrambled text*\" buffer.  The function
>   assumes current major mode is `org-mode'."
>     (interactive)
>     (let ((tree (org-element-parse-buffer)))
>       (org-element-map tree '(code comment comment-block example-block
> fixed-width
>                                    keyword link node-property plain-text
> verbatim)
>         (lambda (obj)
>           (case (org-element-type obj)
>             ((code comment comment-block example-block fixed-width keyword
>                    node-property verbatim)
>              (let ((value (org-element-property :value obj)))
>                (org-element-put-property
>                 obj :value (replace-regexp-in-string "[[:alnum:]]" "x"
> value))))
>             (link
>              (unless (string= (org-element-property :type obj) "radio")
>                (org-element-put-property obj :raw-link "http://orgmode.org
> ")))
>             (plain-text
>              (org-element-set-element
>               obj (replace-regexp-in-string "[[:alnum:]]" "x" obj)))))
>         nil nil nil t)
>       (let ((buffer (get-buffer-create "*Scrambled text*")))
>         (with-current-buffer buffer
>           (insert (org-element-interpret-data tree))
>           (goto-char (point-min)))
>         (switch-to-buffer buffer))))
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>