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From: doug@seismo.css.gov (Sam Carter (carter@huey.CSS.GOV))
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Subject: Re: What does this mean?
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In article <9337@brazos.Rice.edu>, deckel@relay.nswc.navy.mil writes:
> For the past two days, when I've gone into SunView, I've gotten the
> following message:  No selection service available: RPC timed out.  I've
> seen this message before at various times.  Does anyone know what it
> means?

This message normally occurs whenevery you enter SunView the first time
after rebooting your system.  The selection service is a background
process which services the keyboard and mouse interrupts for SunView.  It
normally gets started the first time you enter SunView and then runs
continuously after that until the next reboot.

If this message persists after the first entry. Then you have something
wrong in you configuration.  The SunView 1 Programmer's Guide provides a
brief description of the selection service on page 279.  A more detailed
description can be found in the SunView 1 System Programmer's Guide,
beginning on page 95.

Sam Carter
carter@huey.CSS.GOV
ENSCO, Inc.
Springfield, Va.