gmc with afs (sorta) hangs

[steve rader <rader ginseng physics wisc edu>]

Hello,

Anybody home that knows gmc?   

I just fired up gnome on some afs client nodes and found that gmc is
not a happy camper: strace sez it's "hanging" at least 30 minutes
('prolly more like two hours) while it opens/looks at about 150,000
AFS cache files in /cache.

I know this may be just an initial conditions problem, but it's
still bogus.

Is there some way to tell gmc to not traverse a given directory?  How?

Or is there some other workaround?

steve 
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systems & network guy
high energy physics
university of wisconsin