I got another circular symlink issue upgrading from 2.0.2-something to 3.0-2: /etc/texmf/context/cont-usr.tex I presume it's because /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/config/cont-usr.tex is a symlink to /etc/texmf/context/cont-usr.tex but /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/config used to be a symlink to /etc/texmf/context and therefore is the same as bug #297614. Julian