bug#5262: 23.1; recover-this-file hint requires interaction

[Richard Lewis <richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk>]

I posted this problem on gnu.emacs.help yesterday and it was suggested
it may be a bug.
 
"I run Emacs 23 in daemon mode and occasionally it crashes. Sometimes
this means that autosave files (#...#) are left lying around for my
org-mode files. This causes a problem when restarting the Emacs
daemon: when starting org-mode it prompts that such-and-such.org has
unsaved changes, consider using M-x recover-this-file and then waits
for me to hit return.

"This is fine, except when my Emacs daemon is starting without a
controlling terminal (e.g. when it starts as part of my login
process). It ends up waiting indefinitely for keyboard input."

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/share/emacs/23.1/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.2)
 of 2009-11-02 on raven, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10605000
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Org

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  erc-list-mode: t
  erc-menu-mode: t
  erc-autojoin-mode: t
  erc-ring-mode: t
  erc-networks-mode: t
  erc-pcomplete-mode: t
  erc-track-mode: t
  erc-track-minor-mode: t
  erc-match-mode: t
  erc-button-mode: t
  erc-fill-mode: t
  erc-stamp-mode: t
  erc-netsplit-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  display-battery-mode: t
  jabber-activity-mode: t
  jabber-mode-line-mode: t
  erc-irccontrols-mode: t
  erc-noncommands-mode: t
  erc-move-to-prompt-mode: t
  erc-readonly-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  delete-selection-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
i t SPC c o u n t s SPC a s SPC a SPC b u g . <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> C-c C-t t <down> C-c 
C-s / <backspace> . <return> C-x C-s C-z 3 C-z 1 C-s 
b b d b C-s C-s C-s C-r C-r C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s <return> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<up> <up> C-l C-a <tab> C-c C-s . <return> C-x C-s 
C-e <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> 
<left> C-c C-o C-z 3 r <up> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> C-l <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <down> C-l C-l <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
C-l C-l <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <up> <up> C-a <down> 
<up> <down> <down> <down> TAB C-x 0 C-l I C-z 0 <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> SPC <up> <up> <up> <up> SPC j <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <down> 
<down> C-SPC <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> M-w C-z 1 M-x r e p o <tab> 
r <tab> e m a <tab> b u <tab> <return>

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