Hans' advice to me to run mtxrun fixed my problem and may it will yours as well. Run: $ mtxrun --generate
I also updated texlive 2012 after that. with $ tlmgr update --all # this takes a long time >context runs quite independent of the texlive infrastructure; mtxrun >is its own stub for instance and has its own file database; so, if >'context' does not run, it's because either mtxrun (without suffix on >unix) is not updated > >if you see kpse being initialized (or any kpse related program being >run) you're in troubleL > >Hans ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________