Question: Why can't fsolve solve it?

 

It returns unevaluated.  The solution is x=-ln(3),y=0.  In fact it doesn't give a solution even if the solution is provided as the initial point.  The value of Digits doesn't seem to make a difference.

(Tested Maple 2015.2 Macintosh and Maple 2015.1 Linux)

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