GUI (seems to) locks up when reading chainstate (windows 7 home edition/usb drive)

[fanquake]

Moved from bitcoin/bitcoin#21539.

GUI should react to button clicks, but it doesn't.

For example in options I want to click "start bitcoin on startup" so far after clicking it and waiting for minutes it gets checkboxed.

Clicking OK also take multiple minutes before it reacts.

Smooth behaviour is to be expected not this freezing like behaviour.

Very reliable to reproduce this freezing behaviour.

bitcoin version 0.21

windows 7 home edition, toshiba laptop 2012 with 5 tb seagate usb drive connected, there bitcoin data is stored.

Bandwidth usages seems to be between 2 to 10 MB/sec from usb drive and others.

CPU usage is low only a few procent.

Thus I come to the conclusion that bitcoin is not reacting to signals from the GUI.

The gui is moveable, but the buttons dont react.

[Saibato]

afaics. This is part of a known problem, #16

If irc @laanwj once pointed out somewhere that when he moved the gui from WX to QT that was an kind of ineviatble outcome. But i forgot where he mentioned that. 🤷‍♀️