Platform is SUSE Enterprise 10 SP2. Bootstrapping fails at the `USE=-git emerge -u system' step. This step pulls in some 30+ packages, one of them being sys-kernel/linux-headers. The current version is 2.6.36 which fails, see below. This may be version related, as 2.6.35 is known to have been emerged on 2010-11-21. >>> Emerging (8 of 32) sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.36 >>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/gentoo-headers-base-2.6.36.tar.xz' --2010-11-22 04:41:02-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/gentoo-headers-base-2.6.36.tar.xz Resolving www-proxy.xxx.yy... 153.88.253.150 Connecting to www-proxy.xxx.yy|153.88.253.150|:8080... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2010-11-22 04:41:03 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading 'http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/gentoo-headers-base-2.6.36.tar.xz' --2010-11-22 04:41:03-- http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/gentoo-headers-base-2.6.36.tar.xz Resolving www-proxy.xxx.yy... 153.88.253.150 Connecting to www-proxy.xxx.yy|153.88.253.150|:8080... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2010-11-22 04:41:03 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading 'http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/gentoo-headers-base-2.6.36.tar.xz' --2010-11-22 04:41:03-- http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/gentoo-headers-base-2.6.36.tar.xz Resolving www-proxy.xxx.yy... 153.88.253.150 Connecting to www-proxy.xxx.yy|153.88.253.150|:8080... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2010-11-22 04:41:03 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading 'http://gentoo.ussg.indiana.edu/distfiles/gentoo-headers-base-2.6.36.tar.xz' --2010-11-22 04:41:03-- http://gentoo.ussg.indiana.edu/distfiles/gentoo-headers-base-2.6.36.tar.xz Resolving www-proxy.xxx.yy... 153.88.253.150 Connecting to www-proxy.xxx.yy|153.88.253.150|:8080... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2010-11-22 04:41:04 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading 'http://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/distfiles/gentoo-headers-base-2.6.36.tar.xz' --2010-11-22 04:41:04-- http://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/distfiles/gentoo-headers-base-2.6.36.tar.xz Resolving www-proxy.xxx.yy... 153.88.253.150 Connecting to www-proxy.xxx.yy|153.88.253.150|:8080... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2010-11-22 04:41:04 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading 'http://gentoo-distfiles.mirrors.tds.net/distfiles/gentoo-headers-base-2.6.36.tar.xz' --2010-11-22 04:41:04-- http://gentoo-distfiles.mirrors.tds.net/distfiles/gentoo-headers-base-2.6.36.tar.xz Resolving www-proxy.xxx.yy... 153.88.253.150 Connecting to www-proxy.xxx.yy|153.88.253.150|:8080... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2010-11-22 04:41:04 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download 'gentoo-headers-base-2.6.36.tar.xz'. Aborting.
bad timing, it is available now.
Verified, this was indeed some transient problem. Bootstrapping is healthy again.