Google Cloud SDK install on OS X: (gcloud.components.list) Failed to fetch component listing from server

Question

I\'m trying to install the Google Cloud SDK (https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/quickstart-mac-os-x) and get this error:
ERROR: (gcloud.components.list) Failed to f

Answer 1

After turning off ipv6 support, the tool works like a charm. Looks like gcloud can not work gracefully with ipv6...

Disable ipv6:

networksetup -setv6off Wi-Fi

Enable ipv6:

networksetup -setv6automatic Wi-Fi

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Note: While investigating this, I was also able to make it work by using a very long timeout — 120 seconds. This wouldn't be practical, though, for most use cases due to the long delays it would introduce for each command.

The timeout is located in google-cloud-sdk/lib/googlecloudsdk/core/updater/installers.py at line 36 called TIMEOUT_IN_SEC

Answer 2

Disable IPV6 :

sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1

Answer 3

Disabling ipv6 didn't work for me. I tried a bunch of things before getting it to work. I upgraded to mojave OSX before getting the issues.

I updated mac headers as mentioned here:

open /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg

Rebooted then reinstalled python2: brew reinstall python2

At this point the issue still persisted, decided to reinstall gcloud and came across this: I was using zsh so I added the followin .zshrc:

source <PATH to gcloud sdk>/google-cloud-sdk/path.zsh.inc
source <PATH to gcloud sdk>/google-cloud-sdk/completion.zsh.inc

For bash:

source <PATH to gcloud sdk>/google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc
source <PATH to gcloud sdk>/google-cloud-sdk/completion.bash.inc`

Then a gcloud init got me resetting some proxy configuration that was probably the main issue from the start.