Those pins are just for debugging and can be disabled if you’re not using them. See this post for more details.
Have you made any changes to the files in the BSP folder?
If the code is hanging at while (eventReceptor == NULL);, then either the RadioOnDioIrq() ISR isn’t executing, or it is and the switch value isn’t covered (i.e., the default case is triggering). Can you determine which one it is?