Hi, Hans—

I did a fresh install of the latest beta and ran:
\starttext
Hello, world!
\stoptext

The old error is gone. But now I get:

resolvers       | trees | analyzing 'home:texmf'

mtx-context     | warning: synctex is enabled

mtx-context     | run 1: luatex
--fmt="/Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luatex/cont-en"
--jobname="test"
--lua="/Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luatex/cont-en.lui"
--no-parse-first-line --synctex=1 --c:autogenerate --c:currentrun=1
--c:directives="system.synctex=1" --c:fulljobname="./test.tex"
--c:input="./test.tex" --c:kindofrun=1 --c:maxnofruns=9 --c:synctex="1"
"cont-yes.mkiv"

This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.87.0 (TeX Live 2016/dev)

 system commands enabled.


system          > synctex functionality is enabled (1)!


resolvers       > trees > analyzing 'home:texmf'


system          > callbacks > not registering frozen 'find_format_file'

open source     > 1 > 1 >
/Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-yes.mkiv


ConTeXt  ver: 2015.12.19 14:43 MKIV beta  fmt: 2015.12.19  int:
english/english


system          > 'cont-new.mkiv' loaded

open source     > 2 > 2 >
/Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv

close source    > 2 > 2 >
/Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv

system          > files > jobname 'test', input './test', result 'test'

fonts           > latin modern fonts are not preloaded

languages       > language 'en' is active

open source     > 2 > 3 > /Users/bowen1/Desktop/TestTeX/test.tex

fonts           > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage)

fonts           > 'fallback modern-designsize rm 12pt' is loaded


lua error       > lua error on line 1 in file
/Users/bowen1/Desktop/TestTeX/test.tex:


.../ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/node-nut.lua:269: attempt to
call global 'setfield' (a nil value)

stack traceback:

.../ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/node-nut.lua:269: in
function 'setlist'

.../ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/node-fin.lua:172: in
function '?'

?: in function 'attributes_colors_handler'

[string "local nodes_references_handler = nodes.refere..."]:11: in function
<[string "local nodes_references_handler = nodes.refere..."]:6>

(...tail calls...)


1 >>  \starttext

2

3     Hello, world!

4

5     \stoptext



?

Process aborted

Letting the process continue produces the desired output.

Alan

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> On 12/18/2015 9:20 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:
>
>> Darn. How do I tackle this, then?
>>
>
> i don't know ... can you check out a fresh install?
>
>
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