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H'ok so, My fortress has very recently (after 6 years)developed an issue.  I get unending spam from multiple dwarves, be they attempting to eat or drink or equip gear, where I see "urist mclost cancels _____:  cannot find path".  I can't figure out what's preventing all of them from doing their seemingly unrelated tasks.  They have clear routes to everywhere on the map, and as far as I can see there is no hidden cache of junk that they're all trying to get to but can't due to magma or it being underwater or somesuch.  I would just shut off job cancellation warnings but, y'know, I kind of like knowing when someone's running from a herd of cave beasts that need to have justice visited upon their miserable, stinking cave-heads.  I don't expect that this is an issue you'll be able to help with too much without being able to see my fort, but I was hoping that some of you have had this issue as well, and could tell me how/if you resolved it.  If there's a post on this already, I couldn't find it in the search, and the wiki didn't turn up anything immediately either.  I searched under "could not find path" and screened the results, but nothing seemed especially relevant.  So, sorry if this is a really dumb question, I'm still only at adequate skill level for fortcrafting and all my social skills are stuck at dabbling. 

*edit;  after some further experimentation, I've found that the dwarves generating the issues won't move to do anything, even in a squad with a station command.  It is as though they've been stricken with rapid onset dwarven retardation, which just raises further questions for me.*