Hi
Crivens I think you're on to something. Some facts are needed here:
I installed FreeBSD-10.1 using the CD January 3 of this year. I dump it because
freebsdFreeBSD online port system would not install GNOME-2, but forced GNOME-3 to install. I quit, then I included my fully packed distfiles, but all I got was errors. Since June of last year my FreeBSD 10.0 has never been connected to the INTERNET other than for
freebsd-update,
portsnap and
svn. I have never build world or created custom kernel for it. So I know that my system is pollution-free and has never been hosed. It took until January 14, three weeks ago to be convinced to upgrade to FreeBSD 10.1 by way of
freebsd-update and everything worked, including GNOME-2 (strange, right?).
Did you, by any chance, not install the kernel after some update to the source tree but then installed some modules buld from that?
Crivens: Back in June when I first installed FreeBSD 10.0 from CD I did a
freebsd-update,
portsnap, and I got the src from
svn. I was using an online
how-to that I found. I posted a question for a problem that I thought I had and
wblock@ replied something like *metadata is different and larger with Subversion*. In another thread he said something like *don’t mix svn src with portsnap update’s; get them both from one place or the other*. So this explains after all these months of reading, posting and experimenting; why things works for me and not for others and vice-versa, like now. No wonder no one knew what I was talking about. But still, no little ghost is going to scare me out of this system, and if I ever upgrade again, it will be based on what newer version of FreeBSD does inside Virtualbox now that I have better insight. What I have now run better than XP, Win-8, and PC-BSD.
Thanks
Crivens and
kjpetrie.