I have the same error now with the latest beta (2011-02-05) if there's a folder defined in OSFONTDIR that doesn't exist. Is there a particular reason why the isdir(path) check in globpattern from l-dir.lua was removed? If I add it back then there's no error.
The check broke other globbing (e.g. wildcard) and is not robust so I removed it; I need more info about why/where it fails at your end.
Sure, For example, I'm using: export OSFONTDIR="/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts;$HOME/.fonts" (which was by accident, because originally I was using /usr/local/share/fonts which exists), where I have fonts in $HOME/.fonts, but my /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts does not exist. "ls: cannot access /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts: No such file or directory" Running mkiv beta gives me this error when I want to use a font that's located in $HOME/.fonts: fontnames > identifying system font files with suffix otf fontnames > adding path from OSFONTDIR: /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts fontnames > adding path from OSFONTDIR: /home/reviczky/.fonts fontnames > globbing path /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/**.otf ! LuaTeX error /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/l-dir.lua:68: cannot open /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/: No such file or directory stack traceback: [C]: in function 'walkdir' /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/l-dir.lua:68: in function 'globpattern' /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/l-dir.lua:170: in function 'glob' /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:354: in function 'walk_tree' /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:766: in function 'method' /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:729: in function 'traverse' /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:765: in function 'analyzefiles' /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:829: in function 'identify' /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:854: in function 'load' /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:865: in function 'load' /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:1018: in function 'resolvedspecification' /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:1028: in function 'resolve' /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:264: in function 'r' /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:297: in function 'resolve' /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:636: in function 'read' /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-ctx.lua:564: in function 'stage_two' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. Log attached. Do you need anything else? Adam