The context installation on miktex is (again) broken. The problem seems to be that for all trees the databases are not generated: "resolving | not saving runtime tree ..." And so context and also the format generation breaks on machines where old databases don't exists with "! I can't find file `catc-ini.mkiv'." I made some test on my context-minimals installation and found out that I can recreate in a context-minimal installation the message "resolvers | resolving | not saving runtime tree 'XYZ' I only have to remove the !! before variables in the definition of TEXMF. E.g !!$TEXMFMAIN -> cache is created, $TEXMFMAIN -> cache is not created. So it could be that a wrong "Syntax" of TEXMF is the problem in miktex. But as I have no idea how in miktex context gets the TEXMF, is there a way to *force* the generation of caches for all trees with mtxrun? -- Ulrike Fischer