On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 04:06:47PM -0500, paul morgan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On a new Snow Leopard machine, I ran ./first-setup.sh in ~/context. 
>
> As instructed at the end of the ./first-setup.sh run, I then added /Users/pm/
> context/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin to my .zshenv, and % echo $PATH shows correct path
> when I source, logout, restart, etc. 
>
> I ran:
>
> p% texexec example.tex
> MTXrun | kpse fallback with progname 'context' initialized in 0.001019 seconds
>
> I then tried 
>
> p% luatex sample.tex 
> This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.50.0-2009122423
>  \write18 enabled.
>
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt luatex.fmt
> mktexfmt: No such file or directory
> I can't find the format file `luatex.fmt'!
>
> Any suggestions on what I should do?

Minimals doesn't ship with plain format, only context. If you want
ConTeXt MkIV then run 'context file.tex' (which can process plain tex
files as well, but I don't know how far compatible is it).