Trying to emerge the vlc package, I get the above failure. Full output in "actual results" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # emerge vlc Actual Results: emerge vlc ESC]0;Started emerge on: Aug 08, 2007 11:36:12^GESC]0; *** emerge vlc^GCalculat ing dependencies... done! >>> Emerging (ESC[33;01m1ESC[39;49;00m of ESC[33;01m1ESC[39;49;00m) ESC[32;01mme dia-video/vlc-0.8.6-r1ESC[39;49;00m to / ESC]0; >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/vlc-0.8.6-r1 to /^GESC]0;emerge: (1 of 1) media-video/vlc-0.8.6-r1 Clean^GESC]0;emerge: (1 of 1) media-video/vlc-0.8.6-r1 Compile^GESC[32;01m * ESC[39;49;00mvlc-0.8.6.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ... ESC[34;01m[ ESC[39;49;00mESC[32;01mokESC[39;49;00mESC [34;01m ]ESC[39;49;00m ESC[32;01m * ESC[39;49;00mvlc-0.8.6.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ... ESC[34;01m[ ESC[39;49;00mESC[32;01mokESC[39;49;00mESC[34;01m ] ESC[39;49;00m ESC[32;01m * ESC[39;49;00mvlc-0.8.6.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-) ... ESC[34;01m[ ESC[39;49;00mESC[32;01mokESC[39;49;00mESC[34;01m ] ESC[39;49;00m ESC[32;01m * ESC[39;49;00mvlc-0.8.6.tar.bz2 SHA256 ;-) ... ESC[34;01m[ ESC[39;49;00mESC[32;01mokESC[39;49;00mESC[34;01m ] ESC[39;49;00m ESC[32;01m * ESC[39;49;00mvlc-0.8.6.tar.bz2 size ;-) ... >>> Downloading 'http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/vlc-p atches-33.tar.bz2' --11:36:18-- http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/vlc-patc hes-33.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/vlc-patches-33.tar.bz2' Resolving mirror.hamakor.org.il... 82.80.248.176 Connecting to mirror.hamakor.org.il|82.80.248.176|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 11:36:18 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading 'http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfi les/vlc-patches-33.tar.bz2' --11:36:18-- http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles /vlc-patches-33.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/vlc-patches-33.tar.bz2' Resolving distro.ibiblio.org... 152.46.7.109 Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org|152.46.7.109|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 11:36:20 ERROR 404: Not Found. [truncated other tries to download vlc-patched-33.tar.bz2] !!! Couldn't download 'vlc-patches-33.tar.bz2'. Aborting. ESC]0; *** terminating.^GESC]0;root@:~^GESC[01;31mESC[01;34m ~ #ESC[00m #emerge --info Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.17-gent oo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) Last Sync: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:00:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shu tdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo/ " MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/d istfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa_cards_ali5451 alsa_cards_als4000 alsa_cards_atiixp alsa_cards_at iixp-modem alsa_cards_bt87x alsa_cards_ca0106 alsa_cards_cmipci alsa_cards_emu10 k1x alsa_cards_ens1370 alsa_cards_ens1371 alsa_cards_es1938 alsa_cards_es1968 al sa_cards_fm801 alsa_cards_hda-intel alsa_cards_intel8x0 alsa_cards_intel8x0m als a_cards_maestro3 alsa_cards_trident alsa_cards_usb-audio alsa_cards_via82xx alsa _cards_via82xx-modem alsa_cards_ymfpci alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_a law alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_p lugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_ex tplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_ pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plug ins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugi ns_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol be rkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups curl dlloader dri elibc_gli bc emacs firefox foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gnutls gpm iconv input_devices_evde v input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog kernel_linux libg++ nc urses nls nptl nptlonly opengl pam pcre perl ppds pppd python readline reflectio n samba session spl ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlan d_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_ca rds_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_gli nt video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740 video_cards_i810 video_cards_imstt video_ca rds_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nsc video_cards_nv video_cards_renditio n video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotio n video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_card s_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga vid eo_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo xorg zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGU AS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
There's no 0.8.6-r1 in the tree; emerge --sync before reporting bugs.