On Debian testing/unstable with texlive-metapost/testing uptodate 2005.dfsg.2-2 texlive-base/testing uptodate 2005.dfsg.2-3 texlive-common/testing uptodate 2005.dfsg.2-3 texlive-base-bin/testing uptodate 2005.dfsg.2-2 and the new context package from www.tug.org/texlive/Debian version 2006.08.08 the following text file processes without error but has no graphic \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} draw (0,0)..(1,0)..(1,1)..(1,0)..cycle scaled 5cm withcolor black ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext Further investigation revealed that johans@smoke:~$ mpost -progname=metafun -mem=metafun mptest-mpgraph.mp This is MetaPost, Version 0.901 (Web2C 7.5.5) (mptest-mpgraph.mpSegmentation fault Mpost segfaulted, which I have never seen and have no idea how to pursue. More details: johans@smoke:~$ mpost --version MetaPost 0.901 (Web2C 7.5.5) kpathsea version 3.5.5 Copyright 2005 AT&T Bell Laboratories. Kpathsea is copyright 2005 Karl Berry and Olaf Weber. There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is covered by the terms of both the MetaPost copyright and the Lesser GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING and the MetaPost source. Primary author of MetaPost: John Hobby. Kpathsea written by Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and others. johans@smoke:~$ locate metafun.mem /etc/texmf/web2c/metafun.mem /var/lib/texmf/web2c/metafun.mem -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell