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Old Geezer back again. I am running Linux Mint 14 Nadia. I made two shorcuts to my forums using Launcher but I try to do the same with two other forums and I get this--Failed to execute child process. Don't make sense to me. If it works for one link it should work for more. Tell me something please.How did this child get in here anyway?
Last edited by old geezer; 02-02-2013 at 04:47 PM.
That's what happens when you leave a bowl of candy on the table by an open door, those kids will find it.
Child processes can fail to be created for a variety of reasons - out of memory, memory corruption, disk space perhaps. Every thing in Linux is a process. When you start a program in Linux, that first process executed is called the parent. A parent can "fork" (ok stop that I hear you laughing!) and create other processes, called children, to do other work while the parent process works on yet something else.
That's what happens when you leave a bowl of candy on the table by an open door, those kids will find it.
Child processes can fail to be created for a variety of reasons - out of memory, memory corruption, disk space perhaps. Every thing in Linux is a process. When you start a program in Linux, that first process executed is called the parent. A parent can "fork" (ok stop that I hear you laughing!) and create other processes, called children, to do other work while the parent process works on yet something else.
Well thanks but how do you account for the fact that as I said I created two forum shortcuts with no child getting in to it.
No, I was ansking if any of the system packages had been updated. I had read sometimes this error occurs after updating packages containing some libraries as their location may have changed.
No, I was ansking if any of the system packages had been updated. I had read sometimes this error occurs after updating packages containing some libraries as their location may have changed.
This has nothing to do with my problem but a strange thing has happened. If I leave my security setting set to block reported attack sites I get this. I googled a it is a warning that this site has been compromised--SAY WHAT?
This has nothing to do with my problem but a strange thing has happened. If I leave my security setting set to block reported attack sites I get this. I googled a it is a warning that this site has been compromised--SAY WHAT?
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