Bugzilla Bug 135878

emerging media-fonts/encodings-1.0.0 fails with the following error:

100%[===================================>] 601,812      183.66K/s    ETA 00:00

11:52:14 (183.12 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/encodings-1.0.0.tar.bz2' saved
 [601812/601812]

!!! Couldn't download encodings-1.0.0.tar.bz2. Aborting.

trying again once encodings-1.0.0.tar.bz2 is on the system i get:

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable

    The file is already fully retrieved; nothing to do.

!!! Couldn't download encodings-1.0.0.tar.bz2. Aborting.

Portage 2.1_rc4-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.0/artavatar.0, gcc-4.1.1,
glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config
/usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache collision-protect distlocks keeptemp
keepwork metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch
userpriv"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apache2 apm bash-completion berkdb bzip2 crypt doc dri emacs encode
firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 jpeg motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls
nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcre perl png python readline session spell ssl
truetype udev unicode userlocales vorbis x86 xml xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU
video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia% video_cards_vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS,
MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135715 ***