After fiddling with some unrelated issues involving a python program called makehuman my well behaved context mkiv job is acting up. It finds all kinds of unrelated modules but no longer can find the OTF fonts I use in /usr/share/fonts/OTF. here is a brief sample of some of the output I get now: --------------------------------------------------- kbuildsycoca4(2398) KBuildSycoca::createEntry: modified: "video/wavelet.xml" in xdgdata-mime kbuildsycoca4(2398) KBuildSycoca::createEntry: modified: "video/x-ogm+ogg.xml" in xdgdata-mime kbuildsycoca4(2398) KBuildSycoca::createEntry: modified: "video/x-anim.xml" in xdgdata-mime kbuildsycoca4(2398) KBuildSycoca::createEntry: modified: "video/ogg.xml" in xdgdata-mime kbuildsycoca4(2398) KBuildSycoca::createEntry: modified: "video/x-ms-wmp.xml" in xdgdata-mime kbuildsycoca4(2398) KBuildSycoca::createEntry: modified: "video/mp4.xml" in xdgdata-mime kbuildsycoca4(2398) KBuildSycoca::createEntry: modified: "video/vnd.rn-realvideo.xml" in xdgdata-mime kbuildsycoca4(2398) KBuildSycoca::createEntry: modified: "video/x-matroska.xml" in xdgdata-mime kbuildsycoca4(2398) KBuildSycoca::createEntry: modified: "video/mp2t.xml" in xdgdata-mime --------------------------------------- I have added some python things. Does MKIV use python in any way? Slackware Linux 14. Texlive 2012. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html