On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 20:00:28 -0400
Conrad Hill-Knight <iestynap...@gmail.com> wrote:

>I just had an error message pop up in a window in Enlightenment that
>i've never seen before. This occurred when I selected a program from
>the applications menu (normal left-click on desktop). The text of the
>message is: "Enlightenment is unable to fork a child process:
>speedcrunch". (Speedcrunch is the name of the calculator program i was
>trying top run.)
>
>I was able to run the program manually from a terminal window, and it
>opened a window as usual, complete with E's normal decorations. Then I
>tried it again from the menu, but got the same error message. In fact,
>any program i try to start from the menu gives a similar error. E's
>various dialogs open fine (e.g. settings), but external programs
>don't.
>
>I'm running E 0.18.8... Any idea what caused this? And, more
>importantly, how to fix it
>
>Thanks!
>

could this be something silly like maybe the $PATH is somehow borked?

--
Regards,
Christopher Barry

Random geeky fortune:
You'll wish that you had done some of the hard things when they were
easier to do.

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