Alan,
had the same problems here. My workaround (I'm not sure if it's a
solution): find the file texmf.local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme.
Comment out the following lines:
\autoloadmapfilestrue
\resetmapfiles
\loadmapfile[original-base.map]
\loadmapfile[ec-base.map]
\loadmapfile[8r-base.map]
Thomas
On my system the sub-folder texmf.local/tex/context contains one folder
/config and this has only one file in it, /cont-usr.tex.
The path to this texmf.local folder is /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.local.
I am puzzled by this: I have relied on i-Installer to set up the latest
version of