Cannot select bones by clicking model in the viewport

[anonymous_user_31787f8b]

I’m in the mesh viewport for my model and when I click on my character nothing gets selected. That is, I try to click on the arm or the leg or the head and the corresponding bone does not get selected. Strange thing however, if I click around the model in an empty space then random bones will be selected. Here’s a link to the fbx file that was created in maya:

Also, I don’t know if this is causing it, but I have to change the “Import Uniform Scale” from 1 to virtually any other number else when importing otherwise I get strange bounding boxes around all the bones. See attached.

Thanks.

[anonymous_user_31787f8b]

Has anybody experienced this before? I could really used some suggestions. Thanks!

[4thCoordinate]

While I hate to resurrect such an old thread, this problem persists in 5.1

It’s as if my ALT key is stuck down when trying to select a bone and instead I start to manipulate the camera. Clicking randomly in the viewport selects bones arbitrarily, but I’m not able to use any manipulators. I’ve tried resetting layouts without success. Only solution so far is a quitting/restarting.