It seems that opening a project nowadays requires fetching things on some remote servers: opening a project when the internet connection is down is just impossible.
It just happened to me, my connection went down just when I was opening a project; the Hub window popped up instead of the project with the “Server is currently unresponsive” message.
I continuously tried opening the project while the connection was down: no way, I had to wait until the connection comes back.
What do I need to remove from the project so that this doesn’t happen?
In other threads I’ve seen on this, if you’re connected to your wifi or local wired network but it doesn’t have Internet, Unity assumes you should have Internet anyway. Try closing the Editor and Hub, then disconnect from your network (such as switch to “airplane mode” if on Wifi), and open again. You should get prompted about working in offline mode and successfully open your project. You can then reconnect to your local network.
(sorry I haven’t tried Unity 2021.x yet, so don’t know if you’re talking about some newer issue)
Actually, everything works infinitely better in off line mode! It’s something I’ll have to remember in the future: don’t forget to turn the internet off before starting the Hub and loading your project!
Well, you cannot access the package manager until the project is full open, can you? Once the project is fully open, you can connect to the internet and go about your work.
