MY OUTPUT: Calculating dependencies \ ...done! >>> emerge gnome-base/gail-0.17 to / >>> Downloading http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/gail-0.17.tar.bz2 >>> Downloading mirror://gnome/sources/gail/gail-0.17.tar.bz2 !!! Couldn't download gail-0.17.tar.bz2. Aborting. !!! emerge aborting on /usr/portage/gnome-base/gail/gail-0.17.ebuild . I looked in http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/ and the latest version of gail that exists there is gail-0.16.tar.bz2.
does the file exist in your /usr/portage/distfiles/ ? if so, try rm it and emerging again
No, the file doesn't exist there.
what version of portage do you have?
I had version 1.9, so that might have been the problem since upgrading to 2 fixed some other problems. However, I still hove problems emerging x11- themes/crux.
its now called: x11-themes/gtk-engines-crux