On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 17:37, Robert Blackstone wrote:

Hi,

When installing the current version of ConTeXt-minimals on my old PowerMac G4 (OSX 10.4.11), on which the minimals have been installed, and have worked, without any problems up till october last year, the process stopped midway, because the file 'metafun' could not be opened.

Where did you install the minimals? Can you try chown -R yourusername /path/to/installation ?

The last lines of the log are:

"TeXExec | using tex engine xetex TeXExec | using tex format path ./xetex TeXExec | unable to make format due to lack of permissions TeXExec | using mp engine mpost TeXExec | using mps format path . TeXExec | generating mps format metafun This is MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.0) ! I can't open file `metafun'. <*> metafun

Please type another input file name: "

Does anybody know what can be done about this? (I even do not know how to abort the process other than quitting Terminal.)

Ctrl-C (a couple of times), Ctrl-D, Ctrl-\, ... or killall (but I'm not experience enough in giving you further details). Mojca