diff -up context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua.nosort context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua
--- context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua.nosort	2008-08-14 07:43:48.000000000 +0300
+++ context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua	2008-08-14 08:46:28.000000000 +0300
@@ -193,8 +193,12 @@ function fonts.names.identify(verbose)
                 local pattern = path .. "**." .. suffix -- ** forces recurse
                 logs.report("fontnames", "globbing path %s",pattern)
                 local t = dir.glob(pattern)
-                for _, name in pairs(t) do -- ipairs
+                table.sort(t, function (str1, str2)
+                                 return str1 < str2
+                              end)
+                for huh, name in pairs(t) do -- ipairs
                 --  if lfs.isfile(name) then -- always true anyway
+                        logs.report("filename", "%d -> %s", huh, name)
                         identify(name,file.basename(name),suffix)
                 --  end
                 end