the thing that is failing after John's fix here https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/8629 is bootstrapping ivy:

self = <pants.ivy.bootstrapper.Bootstrapper object at 0x7f55bc7c8b38>
bootstrap_jar_path = '/home/nobody/.cache/pants/tools/jvm/ivy/bootstrap.jar'
    def _bootstrap_ivy(self, bootstrap_jar_path):
      options = self._ivy_subsystem.get_options()
      if not os.path.exists(bootstrap_jar_path):
        with temporary_file() as bootstrap_jar:
          fetcher = Fetcher(get_buildroot())
          checksummer = fetcher.ChecksumListener(digest=hashlib.sha1())
          try:
            <http://logger.info|logger.info>('\nDownloading {}'.format(options.bootstrap_jar_url))
            # TODO: Capture the stdout of the fetcher, instead of letting it output
            # to the console directly.
            fetcher.download(options.bootstrap_jar_url,
                             listener=fetcher.ProgressListener().wrap(checksummer),
                             path_or_fd=bootstrap_jar,
>                            timeout_secs=options.bootstrap_fetch_timeout_secs)