A week ago, I asked why OpenWindows 3.1 was producing this error on startup:
selection_service: Permission denied
Couldn't register selection service
I received quite a few theories, and some requests for summaries, so here is
the answer that was definitely the problem in our case, sent in by
Tommi Saarinen <tsa@stekt.oulu.fi> who says:
"It means that some other user has been using OW before you and rpcbind
has registered selection_service to her. You can check it with rpcinfo
and unregister with rpcinfo -d (see man page for details). Of course
you have to be super user to unregister someone else's
selection_service.
Because everything is still working normally, I think that you could
just ignore that message, but if you are really paranoid maybe it
could be better to do rpcinfo -d ... for your own selection_service
before logging out.
It seems to be fixed in Solaris 2.2."
--- Himanshu Gohel, Gohel@csee.usf.edu U of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620-3140
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