unity freezes when prefab is loaded into game

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I looked around the web and I couldn't find this exact problem so I'm going to go ahead post the questions and hope someone has an answer for it.

This is my problem I have a prefab of an AI character,the prefab has code attached to it for pathfinding as well as basic character control. I can get the character to go between two predefined waypoints. The problem runs into when I try and make random waypoints for it to go to. let's say I have eight waypoints and I wanted the AI to go to four of them and I want those four to be chosen randomly. the code I wrote for this works perfectly fine if the object is already in the game prior to runtime. But if I make a prefab of this object unity crashes the moment I click run. I took out the random waypoint script and tried running it again, it worked perfectly fine for all predefined waypoints but the moment I wanted to choose one randomly the unity freezes. I don't have an error message to show you guys because it freezes before can make an error message. No show you the script that's causing the game to freeze and I love to know if you guys have any alternative ideas or ways of fixing this problem.

waypointLength = waypointAll.Length;

    for(int loopnum = 0; loopnum < CreatAI.HowManyWaypoints; loopnum++){        //this is for how many waypoints will be created
        Loopstart:
        num = Random.Range(0,waypointLength);   //creates a random number between zero and how many waypoints there are

        for (int waypointTest = 0; waypointTest < CreatAI.HowManyWaypoints; waypointTest++){        //this is the integer for the waypoint test loop
            if (Waypoint[waypointTest] == waypointAll[num]){
                goto Loopstart;     //if it fails then the two waypoints are the same if so go to loopstart and redo the test                   
            }
        }
        ObjectNumber[loopnum] = num;                    //makes the object number the same as the waypoint that way if the 3rd stop is going to object 7 the AI knows that
        Waypoint[loopnum] = waypointAll[num];       //copies the waypoint information of the random waypoint to the new waypoint array, putting them in order
    }

waypointall[] is where the eight waypoints are stored. Waypoint[] is where the four randomly chosen ones are stored. If I take this part of the script out unity3D doesn't freeze but my AI doesn't go to the waypoints randomly like I needed to.

I've tried creating this script four different ways applying it to the prefab, I've even tried applying it to a global variable that the prefab accesses and the moment the prefab axes that global variable it freezes. I even had it where the prefab accesses a global variable that has already randomly chosen those four waypoints prior to the creation of the prefab. every way I've tried it freezes a moment that it tries to access these waypoints.

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The function can apparently hang. Unity is single threaded so if you make a function that can hang, unity, including the editor hangs. You could try adding `Debug.Log` output to see what's actually happening, but you'll have to check the logfile instead of the logwindow as the logwindow isn't updated directly and when unity hangs you won't actually see the logging since entering the function.

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Well, either your computer processor is to slow, or try re-scripting it.