Google Chrome net::ERR_TOO_MANY_RETRIES

Question

In Chrome, sometime request fails with Error: status (failed) net::ERR_TOO_MANY_RETIRES.

This happens randomly for 1 request while loading page with 80+ resource.

What could be possible reason for this error? I have attempted the following:

• Cleared the browser cache as well as set the option to disable cache in debugger
• The connection remains in Stalled state when the error occurs
• This happens in incognito mode too

The failing image in above screenshot is refereed in CSS as

background-image: url(/images/no-data-5-2x.png);

Interestingly, this works well with Firefox, and just fails in Chrome.

Pass

I dont know why but most of the time this issue happens with font files only (woff, woff2) – Pass

Answer 1

In a detail analysis, I checked the Chromium source code for ERR_TOO_MANY_RETIRES. And I found the following open bug reference in the file ./net/http/http_network_transaction.cc.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=488043

The issue occurs in case of self signed certificate only. As a work around one can use valid certificate signed by CA for web application. Further details of the issue can be found by visiting the above URL.

Pass

Answer 2

Encountered a similar issue. Site threw cert warning and could not log in with Chrome but other browsers and incognito worked. Disabled password management plugin and was able to log in even though I was not storing any info for the site. Resolved immediately and was able to reenable password management plugin.

Shanell

THANK YOU!. I just encountered this problem with an internal site at work. Stopped loading unless I went incognito. I disabled Last Pass and the site loaded fine. The site uses basic auth, not sure if that is why. – Taxation

Brilliant, I would lost my hair before discover it by myself – Interstitial

@JasonGerard I wrote the LastPass support. Hopefully they fix it soon. A workaround is to right click the extension icon and select This can read and change site data > when you click the extension. See: howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/img_5c26699659f9d.png – Tick

Thanks @Tick that seems to have sorted the problem for now. It is happening to me as well on internal sites that are only accessible via a VPN. – Ciel

Worked for me too, disabled lastpass and Chrome too_many_retries error went away. – Eleph

Same here. Disabling the LastPass extension (as a temporary workaround) solved the issue. – Tilburg

Same here I disabled LastPass! – Unorthodox

In LastPass just disable the Preference Automatically fill login information workes for me. – Syncarpous

The LastPass support told me it should be fixed in the extension version 4.70 – Tick

Answer 3

For me it was a lastpass problem. All you have to do is disable the lastpass extension, refresh the page that doesn't work, and enable the extension back.

Meijer

Same with me, Lastpass caused too many problems. – Iamb

I've had enough. I switch to bitwarden ;) – Meijer

Same with me, with Bitwarden instead. – Farfetched

Answer 4

If anyone is having this issue, I found out that at least with WordPress websites, LastPass can cause this issue on Chrome.

2021-04-12 09:52:41 Error   172.70.34.8     AH01618: user superRootAdmin not found: /               Apache error
2021-04-12 09:52:41 Error   172.70.34.8     AH01618: user superRootAdmin not found: /               Apache error
2021-04-12 09:52:41 Error   172.70.34.8     AH01618: user superRootAdmin not found: /               Apache error
2021-04-12 09:52:41 Error   172.70.34.8     AH01618: user superRootAdmin not found: /               Apache error
2021-04-12 09:52:41 Error   172.70.34.8     AH01618: user superRootAdmin not found: /               Apache error
2021-04-12 09:52:41 Error   172.70.34.8     AH01618: user superRootAdmin not found: /               Apache error

The IP has a Cloudflare origin.

If the website is deployed by Plesk, this will trigger the Fail2Ban Plesk security feature. So, you'll be banned by Plesk along with the ERR_TOO_MANY_RETRIES if you disable Fail2Ban.

Remove the user/pass combination for that affected user account and you're golden.

Erlindaerline

Thanks, LastPass was the exact reason in my case. – Cycling

LastPass has said they have a fix coming on April 10: twitter.com/LastPassHelp/status/1380576600572317699 – Perrin

The fix is "coming soon', as of April 13th, 2021, it's still an issue. – Tobey

+1 I have removed all my chrome plugins trying to resolve this. As a developer I was horrified because this was happening only on one site am deving – Gambell

Answer 5

If it helps you any I encountered this issue today and found it was due to my VPN client which had malfunctioned.

Natural

Answer 6

Encountered the same error ERR_TOO_MANY_RETIRES while connecting to my Wi-Fi router at http://192.168.1.1/. In Chrome settings I found that "Chrome is using proxy settings from an extension":

Disabling the extension solved the issue.

Pasley