Hans van der Meer wrote:
> After starting afresh after an os update and much trouble in getting  
> all those texmf.cnf parameters in order followed by context  
> specialities, I finally managed to get the cont-en.fmt in /usr/local/ 
> texlive/2007/texmf-config/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.fmt.
> 
> But now (running in TeXShop) typesetting will not occur:
> 
> TeXExec | processing document 'test.tex'
> TeXExec | no ctx file found
> TeXExec | tex processing method: context
> TeXExec | TeX run 1
> TeXExec | writing option file test.top
> TeXExec | using randomseed 1100
> TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
> TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.5 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>   \write18 enabled.
>   %&-line parsing enabled.
>   (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> TeXExec | runtime: 0.601367
> 
> In texmf.cnf I have TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}// (worked  
> in the past)
> What's wrong here?

remove *all* cont-en.fmt files on your system, maybe there is a lookup 
match lower in the tree; keep in mind that when generating formats, the 
generator has to move the file someplace, while when using the format 
the variable kicks in, so there can be a mismatch

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