Emacs consuming all of CPU

Hello,
I have a problem with the new Emacs 23.2.1 in that it consumes all of my CPU when running under X. In console mode it works normally. Do you also experience this?

The same problem just happened to me today. I requested reopening of the following task in the bugtracker: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19397
Removing the file .kde4/env/gtk-qt-engine.rc.sh as described in the 3rd comment to the above task did not solve the problem for me.
I didn't try the cedet patch, because that's from 2006 and the 100% cpu problem appeared with emacs 23.2.1 which is brand new.
Last edited by iromeister (2010-05-23 18:20:58)

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