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    You are better off using a more up to date ConTeXt version with LuaTeX as backend, instead of XeTeX. Your version is almost six years old. If you don't have compelling reasons to stick to XeTeX I would advice to switch. Commented Nov 1, 2012 at 15:41
  • @Marco: thanks for your comment. I will certainly consider that. However we have typeset a huge 1200-page volume using XeTeX, and I think it was chosen because of its multilingual capabilities. If we switch to LuaTeX there is a risk that some things will stop working which we may not discover for a long time. So I want to try to stay with XeTeX if possible. However I will keep that in mind. AFAICT I am using the latest distributions of texlive* available for CentOS. But I'm not an expert in Linux package systems so please correct me if I'm wrong. Commented Nov 1, 2012 at 15:51
  • OK, thanks for trying. Anybody else know how to fix a fmtutil infinite recursion? Commented Nov 1, 2012 at 17:20
  • Another option is to install the context standalone distribution (see contrxt for wiki for details). It may be installed in parallel to TL, and you can run extend backend using context --xetex filename. Commented Nov 3, 2012 at 17:29
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    @LarsH: Sorry, I was typing on my phone, and did not notice the stupid autocorrect. I meant, run "xetex backend". Regarding "context --xetex" vs "texexec --xetex"; both "context" and "texexec" are wrapper script that call the underlying engine with appropriate arguments; "context" is written in lua so does not require ruby, while "texexec" is written in ruby. Regarding sudo vs not, in general it is a good idea try the command without sudo; depending on the config, this might create the format files in TEXMFHOME. If you get a "permissions denied" error, then try with sudo. Commented Nov 4, 2012 at 4:13