Yarn - There appears to be trouble with your network connection. Retrying

Question

I have been trying to do the quickstart guide for react native, but kept getting this error

There appears to be trouble with your network connection. Retryin         


        

Answer 1

I encountered this error while attempting yarn outdated. In my case, a few of the packages in my project were hosted in a private registry within the company network. I didn't realize my VPN was disconnected so it was initially confusing to see the error message whilst I was still able to browse the web.

It becomes quite obvious for those patient enough to wait out all five retry attempts. I, however, ctrl-c'd after three attempts...