>>> Unpacking source... * Cloning http://bitbucket.org/panzi/smooth-tasks/ to /mnt/large/distfiles/hg-src/smooth-tasks/smooth-tasks ** unknown exception encountered, details follow ** report bug details to http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/ ** or mercurial@selenic.com ** Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.4.2) ** Extensions loaded: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/hg", line 27, in <module> mercurial.dispatch.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 16, in run sys.exit(dispatch(sys.argv[1:])) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 30, in dispatch return _runcatch(u, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 46, in _runcatch return _dispatch(ui, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 454, in _dispatch return runcommand(lui, repo, cmd, fullargs, ui, options, d) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 324, in runcommand ret = _runcommand(ui, options, cmd, d) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 505, in _runcommand return checkargs() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 459, in checkargs return cmdfunc() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 453, in <lambda> d = lambda: util.checksignature(func)(ui, *args, **cmdoptions) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/util.py", line 386, in check return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/commands.py", line 649, in clone update=opts.get('updaterev') or not opts.get('noupdate')) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/hg.py", line 187, in clone src_repo = repository(ui, source) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/hg.py", line 63, in repository repo = _lookup(path).instance(ui, path, create) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/httprepo.py", line 263, in instance inst.between([(nullid, nullid)]) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/httprepo.py", line 184, in between d = self.do_read("between", pairs=n) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/httprepo.py", line 128, in do_read fp = self.do_cmd(cmd, **args) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/httprepo.py", line 102, in do_cmd proto = resp.headers['content-type'] File "/usr/lib/python2.6/rfc822.py", line 388, in __getitem__ return self.dict[name.lower()] KeyError: 'content-type' Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc61 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo-home2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-home2-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.0 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/hddtemp/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" DISTDIR="/mnt/large/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/" LANG="" LC_ALL="" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="ru en" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="lzma" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/swegener /usr/local/portage/layman/hollow /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/layman/sping /usr/local/portage/layman/qutim-overlay /usr/local/portage/layman/kde-sunset /usr/local/portage/layman/qting-edge /usr/local/portage/layman/kde /usr/local/portage/layman/gamerlay /home/non7top/overlays/arcon-hg /home/non7top/overlays/arcon/trunk/arcon-testing" SYNC="rsync://s/gentoo-portage" USE="3dfx 3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X a52 aac acpi addbookmarks additions aften aim akode alias alsa amazon amr amrwb ansi apm applet archive artswrappersuid ass atm automount autoreplace avahi bash-completion bashlogger binary-drivers bittorrent branding bzip2 cairo captury cdrkit cgi chm cisco connectionstatus consolekit contactnotes coreavc cracklib crypt css curl custom-optimization cxx dbus deskbar desktopglobe dhcp disk-partition djvu dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss emovix enca encode epiphany evo exif expat extensions extras faac faad fam fat fbcondecor ffmpeg flac flash fontconfig fortran ftp gd gdbm geoip gif glib glitz gnokii gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gzip hal hddtemp highlight history httpd iconv id3 ieee1394 imagemagick imlib inotify insecure-patches ithreads jabber javascript jfs jpeg kde kde4 lame libass libextractor libnotify lm_sensors logrotate lvm lzma mad maps matroska md mdadm mikmod mktemp mkvlinks mmx mmxext mng modules mouse mozdevelop mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap musicbrainz mysql mysqli nas nautilus ncurses network network-cron nls nowlistening nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ntlm obex ogg opengl openmp openntpd oscar pam passwordsave pcf pch pcre pdf perl php plasma plugins png policykit ppds pppd python qt-copy qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection samba sasl screen sdl semantic-desktop session sha512 simplexml slang sndfile spell spl sqlite sqlite3 srt srv sse sse2 ssl startup-notification statistics subtitles subversion svg swat sysfs syslog taglib tcpd theora threads threadsafe thumbnail thunar tiff tordns tos tracker translator trayicon truetype unicode upnp urandom usb utempter vim-syntax visualization vnc vorbis wavpack weather web webkit win32codecs winbind wxwindows x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xfs xhtml xine xinetd xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xorg xosd xpm xsl xulrunner xv xvid zeroconf zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse ps2mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru en" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeonhd fglrx vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Hmm, working fine here with several mercurial versions. Maybe a server problem, resolving as WORKSFORME. Feel free to reopen if the problem persists.