Thank you so much for the suggestions. The FireFox console reported that I was getting a script error for core/first. Turns out I got bit by the Mac tar issue reported here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=364198&parent=1502659 -- I had done a dry run on my Mac and tarred the files for installation on the gentoo server. When I reinstalled all the files by FIRST copying the zip to the gentoo system and unzipping them there, everything worked.
Thank you so much...I would never have figured this out (well...maybe in a couple of weeks, after losing weight, hair, and my mind a few times) without that pointer.
Thank you so much...I would never have figured this out (well...maybe in a couple of weeks, after losing weight, hair, and my mind a few times) without that pointer.